Can We Make Cancer Nonlethal? | Reed Jobs & Matt Bettonville of Yosemite
The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
Intro
Host Hallie Tecco introduces the episode and guests Reed Jobs and Matt Bettonville from Yosemite, outlining the mission to make cancer non-lethal.
Cancer drugs cost more than ever, yet survival benefits are often modest—and in some cases, patients can’t even access the care that already exists.
After losing his father, Steve Jobs, to pancreatic cancer, Reed Jobs committed himself to making this the last generation that loses parents to the disease.
Reed now leads Yosemite, a venture fund spun out of Emerson Collective in 2023, alongside Investor Matt Bettonville. Yosemite pairs life sciences and digital health investments with a grantmaking model to accelerate cancer research and ensure breakthroughs actually reach patients.
We cover:
📉 The tension between drug pricing, patient access, and real-world value
🩺 Digital interventions that have outperformed cancer drugs in survival outcomes
🧪 Why phase 3 clinical trials are so costly, and how synthetic control arms could change that
🧬 The promise and limits of early detection—from liquid biopsies to at-home pap smears
🌍 The global race for healthcare innovation and why the U.S. can’t afford to fall behind
About our guests:
Reed Jobs is an Investor at Yosemite and manages Yosemite. Yosemite works exclusively in the oncology space, using flexible capital to advance science with the goal of making cancer non-lethal in our lifetime. Over the years, Reed has supported hundreds of researchers and invested in dozens of therapeutic, diagnostic and digital health companies across the U.S. and Europe. Before the launch of Yosemite, Reed served as the Managing Director of Health at Emerson Collective. He serves on the board of directors at Conservation International, Harvard Medical School, PICI, Stanford Medicine and Waverley Street Foundation.
Matt Bettonville is an Investor at Yosemite where he leads the team’s investment efforts in digital health and healthcare delivery. He previously worked on Emerson Collective’s Count Me In non-profit partnership with the Broad Institute. Matt started his career working on user interface software engineering at Apple, where he was on the Mac team and a part of the AirPods product team. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction. Matt serves on the board of directors at Atropos, Maia Oncology, Turquoise Health, Count Me In and Getlabs. He serves as a board observer at Proximie.
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