Big Picture Medicine

Jan 01 2025 151 ep. 36 mins 30
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The health entrepreneurship podcast — focusing on big picture stuff. Interviews with health/biotech entrepreneurs and leaders having impact at scale. Health stuff a techbro/sis would find interesting. Think health meets the Tim Ferriss Show. Get in touch: [email protected]

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#134 Sean Duffy, Omada Health ($1bn+ Valuation)

Jan 01 2025 35 mins  
According to Business Insider, Omada Health has quietly filed its S-1 to prepare for an IPO. Here's how Sean Duffy (CEO & Co-founder) built it. 0:00 Intro 0:17 Signing first customer 1:51 How to have good ideas in healthcare 4:00 Why metabolic health is a hard area to innovate in 5:18 What the MVP product looked like 11:16 Sean's secret tactics 14:55 Operational innovation as

#133 A New Radiology Foundation Model ($160M Raised) — Harrison.ai CEO, Dr Aengus Tran

Oct 26 2024 34 mins  
Dr Aengus Tran is the CEO of Harrison.ai — an Australian radiology AI startup who have raised $160M. Harrison.ai just released their radiology foundation model, Harrison.rad.1. And it's really good. 0:00 Intro 2:25 I'm glad I didn't found my startup in the US 4:21 Partnering with a clinical operator is key 7:28 Scrappy stories from the early days 11:17 Where human radiologists

#132 Arcadia CEO ($100M ARR) on How To Sell Enterprise Healthcare — Michael Meucci

Aug 25 2024 25 mins  
Michael Meucci (CEO) transformed Arcadia — formerly a mid-sized consultancy into a healthcare platform with $100M of Annual Recurring Revenue. How? Lots of smart moves, including becoming really good at enterprise healthcare selling. Here's how he did it. Links Arcadia: https://arcadia.io/ Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/

#131 Scaling Contraceptive App to 2M Users By Daring Not to Be Free (Dr Elina Berglund, CEO Natural Cycles)

May 27 2024 30 mins  
Dr Elina Berglund is the CEO/Co-founder of Natural Cycles, which she has grown to 2M users. When every other app seemed to be free — she made a brave decision: She charged her users a monthly fee. And it worked... 0:57 - The Birth of Natural Cycles 2:57 - The Decision to Charge from the Start 3:47 - Building Trust Through Pricing 4:23 - From Personal Struggles to Public Solution

#130 Kaia Health, Raising $125M By Turning $50,000 Elite Pain Rehab into an App (CEO, Konstantin Mehl)

Mar 24 2024 29 mins  
Konstantin started Kaia Health after paying $50,000 to cure his back pain at an elite pain rehab centre. It worked. But it seemed stupid. Why did this need to cost $50,000? Kaia Health has since raised $125M and helped 625,000 users. 0:00 The 90 second story 1:22 How did he grow 20% every week? 2:15 Market timing is everything 7:43 We never put pressure on this making any money

#129 Jon Ronson on Writing, Hustle and the Psychopath Test

Feb 03 2024 43 mins  
Jon Ronson is one of the most interesting people alive today — period. He’s the author of the Men Who Stare at Goats, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and The Psychopath Test — which spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His two Ted talks have been watched 20 million times, his books have been brought to life by George Clooney on the big screen, he has writt

#128 AgeTech: Shopify vs Amazon Model — Birdie CEO, Max Parmentier

Dec 23 2023 29 mins  
Max Parmentier is the CEO of Birdie, a Series B AgeTech startup who have raised $52M from the likes of Sofina, Omers Ventures and Index Ventures — and captured 10% of the UK market whilst currently scaling into Europe. 0:00 Intro 2:37 Shopify vs Amazon model in AgeTech 7:26 Product pivots: D2C never wins 11:56 Predictive AI AgeTech 13:58 I pitch an idea to Max 19:34 Lessons build

#127 Gentle Disruption Wins in Healthcare — DrDoctor CEO Tom Whicher

Dec 03 2023 33 mins  
Tom Wicher is CEO of DrDoctor — who have served over 20M patients and just raised £10M in their recent Series A round. But he spent the first 7 years bootstrapping, and diverged from his colleagues: Opting for the slow and steady gentle disruption path. Why? 0:00 Gentle disruption beats move fast and break things 3:36 Picking a problem in healthcare 5:44 Behavioural change theo

#126 Drug Discovery is Becoming More $$$ — Here's Why, And The Startup Fixing It (Lindus Health)

Oct 31 2023 35 mins  
Drug discovery is becoming more expensive and producing less results than ever before (Eroom's Law)—why? One of the ballooning costs are clinical trials. Pharma/biotech often outsource their trials to CROs (contract research organisations). But many CROs are incentivised to make trials as bloated and inefficient as possible. That means more money and less results. Meri Bec

#125 The $350M Startup Creating Perfect Memory (Rewind.ai — CEO Dan Siroker)

Oct 24 2023 49 mins  
Rewind.ai just raised their Series A at a valuation of $350M. Investors include Andreesen Horowitz, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Rewind sits on your computer and phone, and watches everything you do. Then you can ask it questions like: What was that really great Mediterranean recipe I looked at last month? Or I’ve got a call with a client next week, can