Videos

June 29, 2023

Lessons from teaching, scaling a startup and investing in healthcare - Owen Willis of Opal Ventures

Owen Willis is the Founder and General Partner at Opal Ventures. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Osmosis and Program Partner at On Deck. We talk about: Introduction and childhood Gender and Race Teaching as a profession Can humility be taught How to hire and onboard How to…

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June 8, 2023

A physician's journey to reduce medical error: Steve Charlap - SOAP Health

Steve is a physician and founder of SOAP health. Steve Charlap: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-charlap-md-mba-8911906/ SOAP Health: https://soap.health/ Rishad Usmani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishadusmani/ HealthTech Investors: https://www.healthtechinvestors.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Childhood 03:18 Thoughts on Man’s Search for Meaning 06:15 Structure vs intuition in picking colleagues 13:01 Visionary vs operator, weaknesses vs strengths 17:58 Why do teams fall…

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May 9, 2023

A quantum view into investing and life - Leon Eisen: Entrepreneur, PhD and Investor

Leon is an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful human. After completing his PhD in Quantum Physics he went on found Oxitone Medical. He is also a Venture partner at Network VC. We talk about: 1. Intuition vs structure in decision making 2. The quantum world and how it shapes our reality…

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March 30, 2023

Picking the best startups and venture capitalists: Shubhra Jain - Tarsadia Investments

Shubhra Jain is the Head of Healthcare investments at Tarsadia Investments. She moved to US after completing her MBBS in India, to pursue a Masters in mechanical engineering at Stanford after which she completed her MBA from Wharton. Shubhra is an incredibly sharp, reflective and humble person. I had a…

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March 8, 2023

Insights from a physician, entrepreneur and investor: Shrawan Patel - Strategy Health and PharmStars

Shrawan is a physician, entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the managing director at Strategy Health and founding team member at PharmStars. I have known Shrawan for a few months now and find him to be deeply reflective, intelligent, curious and open minded. We talk about His childhood Decision making…

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March 1, 2023

Leaving clinical medicine - Harvery Ca

Harvey is curious, kind and humble. He is a physician, healthcare consultant, and serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the healthcare industry. He is the author of ChatGPT Healthcare and Success Reinvention. We talk about His journey out of clinical medicine Entrepreneurship Perseverance Profitability in healthcare Timestamps 00:00 How to…

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Feb. 17, 2023

Investing with Intuition - David Zhou: On Deck Angels

David Zhou runs ops and deal flow at On Deck Angels. He is a mentor and advisor to several accelerators and incubators including Techstars, WEVE, City University of New York and Alchemist Accelerator. You can follow his thoughts on his newsletter, Cup of Zhou. He has an inquisitive, curious and…

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Feb. 11, 2023

How to transition into venture capital as a scientist

I had an amazing time talking with Bharat. He is a truly independent and contrarian thinker. I am thankful for his transparency and honesty in elucidating his journey from scientist to venture capital. Bharat Srinivasa is a co-founder and principal at Amplitude Ventures . They have over $300 million under…

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Feb. 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Joshua Liu - SeamlessMD

Josh is the CEO and cofounder of SeamlessMD, a patient engagement platform which improves patient satisfaction while reducing hospital length of stay, readmissions, and costs.. They have raised over $7.5 million and are used by various health systems including Stanford Health. He is intelligent, humble and posses incredible grit. We…

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Jan. 26, 2023

From eye surgeon to venture capitalist at 53: Sam Goldberger - Ambit Health Ventures

Sam is a managing partner and co founder of Ambit Ventures (an early stage digital health venture firm), he is on the board of multiple startups. We are co-investors in SOAP health (early disease detection and diagnosis at the point of care). At the age of 53 he decided to…

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Jan. 13, 2023

What is the future of AI in surgery?Jawad Ali - Vality Partners

I always have a fun time speaking with Jawad Ali and it’s always a pleasure. Jawad is a practicing general surgeon, founder of Vality (a physician led consulting firm specializing in digital surgery, patient engagement and surgical devices) and founder of Austin MedTech Connect (a private community connecting founders, clinicians,…

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Jan. 5, 2023

How do you go from idea to execution? Joshua Landy - Figure 1

Josh is the chief medical officer and cofounder of Figure 1, a social network and medical education platform for physicians. Figure 1 has raised $23.5 million and serves over 3 million users worldwide. Josh is also a practicing intensive care physician and the medical lead for medical assistance in dying…

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Jan. 1, 2023

Story of my startup (ClinicUp)

In this video I go through the story of my startup from idea to its end in early 2022. ClinicUp grew fast to serve 1100 patients, I hired 10 physicians, we got a 6 million acquisition offer then we got sued and lost it all.

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Dec. 21, 2022

Advice for founders on how to sell to health systems: Amit Mehta - BuildersVC

Amit Mehta is a General Partner at BuildersVC and interventional radiologist. BuildersVC is a $450 million venture capital firm which invests in various verticals including healthcare. We talked about Amit’s journey into entrepreneurship and venture capital, life, success, artificial intelligence and more. Amit was humble, honest and transparent. His breadth…

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Dec. 9, 2022

What is a good death? - Raihan Faroqui

Raihan is a seasoned physician-entrepreneur. He is currently the Head of Medical Affairs at Gauranteed, a hospice startup. We talked about his journey from physician to entrepreneur, how to sell into health systems, the biggest problem in healthcare, death and identity. 00:00 Introduction 01:10 Childhood 05:48 Medicine to entrepreneurship 09:40…

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Dec. 8, 2022

How far are we from general AI in healthcare? - Amit Garg (Tau Ventures)

Amit is a founding partner at Tau Ventures. He completed his Bachelors in Computer Science and his Masters in Bio-informatics from Stanford, after which he went on to complete his MBA from Harvard. He was an early Product Manager at Google and co-founded HealthIQ which raised $120 million at a…

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Nov. 25, 2022

Should you do an MBA as a physician?- Saumitra Thakur (MedMountain Ventures)

Saumitra is a physician and venture capitalist. After finishing medical school from NYU (New York University) he completed his MBA from Stanford and internal medicine residency from UCLA. He is a founding partner at Med Mountain Ventures, a venture capital firm with $10 million assets under management investing in healthcare…

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