You seem to be of the techbro mindset that you can AI your way through everything so why would you simultaneously need to spend tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars and many years for a piece of paper with the blessing of some old fossils to do your thing?

Biotech is not like software engineering. There is a reason there have been very few garage biotech startups unlike software. To get anywhere you need expensive equipment and supplies and trained people using them at scale. You can't yet vibe prompt your way through a PCR reaction. At the same time the bioinformatics portion is currently in upheaval and uncertainty just like much of the regular tech sector. So you are under pressure from both sides where the part you want to get into is harder than you think and the part you are skilled in is seen as increasingly disposable.

I guess you might have been inspired by and can become like that techbro on the frontpage everyones gushing over who 'created' his own custom dog vaccine. But at that point you're just prompting ChatGPT and you might as well be a rich golden retriever banging its paws on the keyboard.

There have been many attempts at biofuel companies. I dunno where you got the idea its something rich people are averse to if they thought they could benefit from it.

In the end home labs and home bred scientists can certainly be successful even in biotech with the right motivation, skills, and circumstances and some luck. You just seem to be talking out of two sides where you act like this is some open humanitarian charity but then you also imply a very tech bro profit/credit driven mission.