i'm headed inside of life technologies to sit down with ceo greg lucier and learn what makes this business successful. >> nice to see you. >> you have been here about 10 years now? >> about 10 years. >> in that 10 years, you have grown maybe tenfold? >> we have grown tenfold. >> you actually bought some other companies. was that part of the initial plan? >> it was reall a basic idea. at a laboratory bench, someone doing cancer research would in the past have multiple companies selling them the things they needed to do research. we simply said -- why couldn't we be that company that did it all? part of what we do is serve researchers doing important research with technology, consumables, software that allows them to interrogate how life works. >> you talk about a cost. you are doing something that could lead to the cure of cancer. does that drive you differently? >> each and every day, we have 12,000 employees around the world. it is fair to say that they wake up not only to do their job but to think about that purpose you were just speaking about. for me, i have no doubt in my mind that wi