The Pursuit of Scrappiness #54 Benefits of implanting microchips, biohacking tips, ethics of technology & risks worth taking w/ Hannes Sapiens Sjoblad 🇸🇪 (DSruptive)
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Hannes Sapiens Sjoblad is the managing director of DSruptive - a deep tech company specialized in implantable microelectronics. With its revolutionary BeUno app, DSruptive is looking to make implantable health tracking devices ubiquitous.
In this episode we talk about the product of DSruptive and implantable health tracking as well as challenges in developing a deep tech product. We also discuss human augmentation technologies and hot healthtech industry trends. Finally we talk about community building through the Epicenter Stockholm experience lens.
The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps
[02:40] - ON DSRUPTIVE AND HEALTH TRACKING
- Combining wearables with human body
- Rice grain sized implants for body temperature tracking
- All technology is controversial
- Choosing medicine as the primary application for the tech
- Evolving the tech
- Pricing of a complex medtech product
- Alternative applications
[14:40] - ON (UN)EXPECTED CHALLENGES IN THE STARTUP JOURNEY
- Everything takes longer, always
- Clinical study going faster than planned
- Innovation vs. regulation
[19:00] - ON HUMAN AUGMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES
- Enhancing human body capabilities
- Ethics and how protected are we as customers
- The problem with risk-averseness
- Longevity
- Proactionary principle
- Competing with China with EU regulatory limitations
- Good/evil applications for technology throughout history
[28:00] - ON HOT TRENDS IN HEALTHTECH INDUSTRY
- Remote monitoring
- Personalization of medicine
- Preventive medicine
- Longevity
[32:50] - ON COMMUNITY BUILDING AND EPICENTER STOCKHOLM
- Tech conference experience all year round
- What does chief disruption officer mean
- Catching the wave of innovation at the right time
- Community with strong value prop for members
- Allowing talent to flourish
- Adapting to hybrid work world
[42:24] - HEALTHY LIFESTYLE TIPS FROM BIOHACKING EXPERIENCE
To reach out to Hannes use: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannessapiens/
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