Great healthtech event yesterday in SF, with so many interesting people - Thank you for having me!
As a 2x immigrant, now building tech in SF, the most rewarding part of being a founder is this: I'm surrounded by insanely smart people all the time. If you’re open-minded and ready to be out of your comfort zone most of the time, you can always find folks who will share their amazing experiences and let you learn from them. And that just helps you grow 10x faster - and feel 10x more pain, obviously (: That’s why together with Alena, we host meetups and invite the smartest founders we know - to make the density of cool folks around us even higher. It feels good and it's fun. This week, we ran two healthtech invite-only events. As always, some cool stuff came up yesterday: ^ 13 founders from Microsoft, Apple, UCSF, Stanford, IBM, IDEO. A few things stood out: ??founder using AI + personalized education + extremely deep industry expertise to help cardiac patients recover faster ? wearables that track biometrics & predict emotional arousal built by an evolutionary biologist ?? neuroscientist working on focused ultrasound (FUS) for neuro treatments ?? engineer-turned-investor (now in a $120M healthtech/edtech fund) ??tech founder turning?"sickcare" into affordable "healthcare", after building robots Yicheng Sun dropped in as a speaker -> sharp thoughts on design thinking in healthtech, AI and its long term implications in healthcare. Cheers to those who were with us! Christoph Dressel Yuxin Chen Yicheng Sun Dhawal Jain Cynthia Benjamin Matthew Delaney Uma Subramanian Sithu Win Anton Bereza @josh cain Melinda Yormick PS: If you’re working on something in healthtech, DM me for the next one.