
Big Picture Medicine
#113 Mental Models for Health Entrepreneurship — Dr Ignacio Medrano (CEO Savana)
Dr Ignacio Medrano is the Founder of Savana (raised $44M dollars with over 100 employees). They use AI to unlock all the value out of clinical records and produce real world evidence.
0:00 Intro
0:34 Ignacio's story
1:30 Learnings from Neurology -> Entrepreneurship
3:27 How to build good health products/services
5:03 Downsides of being a doctor in health entrepreneurship
7:21 Just in case vs just in time learning
9:14 Perils of perfectionism in healthcare
12:34 Do you need to be a d**k to be a good leader?
14:27 Dunbar's number — leading bigger organisations
17:52 Differences in operating in Europe
20:12 Diagnostic medical AI is a waste of time
23:15 SWOT analysis of Savana
26:07 Threats to Savana — LLMs?
29:22 Being eccentric as a competitive advantage
31:09 Becoming a better speaker/storyteller
34:02 Declining Royal Academy of Sciences invite
36:24 Arrogance as a competitive advantage
38:48 Tribes — exclusion criteria importance
40:27 Billion $ Health Idea
41:38 Not watching TV as a competitive advantage
46:40 Outro
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