ELEVATE: Products & People that Make an Impact 114: Digital Health Visionary Jim Kean, Founder of Wellness FX
May 12, 2023
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Jim Kean is the founder of Wellness FX, one of the largest bloodwork analysis companies in the US. Jim has successfully scaled multiple companies and has recently been announced as CEO of the Vancouver-based longevity company MolecularYou. Jim shares tips on scaling technology companies, the history & transformation of the online economy, innovation in health tech, strategies for raising capital via storytelling and more.
In this episode, Jim & Delaney discuss:
- Jim Kean's Philosophy on Starting & Scaling Health Tech Companies
- Restructuring his Company to Focus on User-Generated Content
- The Evolution of the Online Economy
- How Wellness FX Got Started and Its Impact on Telehealth
- Mental Frameworks for Successfully Scaling a Business
- Exploring the Benefits of Storytelling for VCs
- Jim's Experience Creating a New Sport for TV
- The Sequoia Method for Raising Capital: Strategies for Showing Why You and Why Now
- Exploring the Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur: From Concept to Growth
- How to Network and Find the Right Investors for Series A Funding
- The Benefits of Protein Testing for Population Health and Wellness
Additional Resources from Jim:
- The Effortless Experience: this is the definitive book on why Customer Effort is such an important scoring system to design a product and service delivery application around.
- God, Human, Animal, Machine: This is a great book that examines what it means to be human in the age of AI. Somewhat sprawling but thought-provoking.
- Sequoia Business Plan Outline
- For fun, Jim is currently reading The Expanse sci-fi series.
- Podcasts: Hard Fork, Ezra Klein
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