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#120 Billion $ Healthtech 'Soonicorn' Huma: Lessons from Jony Ive and Big Pharma — Dan Vahdat (CEO)

Jun 26, 2023
39:45

Huma is about to reach a 1 billion dollar valuation, and is thriving while other digital health companies are dying. But what’s their secret sauce? Dan Vahdat is the Johns Hopkins dropout — who meticulously studied the successful business practices of big pharma, and using these, has created the 'soonicorn' digital health company that’s about to take over the world of remote patient monitoring and decentralised clinical trials. 0:00 Intro 1:11 Focusing on one big thing is bullsh*t 6:33 Lessons from Jony Ive 10:02 Healthtech infrastructure play 16:04 'Ownership is everything' discussion 20:18 If you maximise impact, commercial will come 24:00 Bad design hurts me 28:56 You don't need to try and inspire anyone 30:35 Are you full of sh*t? 32:27 How does your life change when you 'make it'? 36:50 Is studying successful people a waste of time? 39:28 Outro Podcast Links YouTube:    / @bigpicturemedicine   Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5707RPm... People Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/ Dan Vahdat https://www.huma.com/

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