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Harrison.ai is partnering with leading healthcare companies to build AI products at never-before-seen speeds in the industry 🤓“If you look at the health system across the world, inequality and the capacity of the system are going to be the biggest problems of our time.”“The 20th century in medicine was the century of the molecule… but I believe that the 21st century is going to be about zooming out and looking at the healthcare system as a whole.”Dr. Aengus Tran is on a mission to improve the standard of care for a million people every day.💙 Saving a million lives a day with Dr. Aengus Tran and Samantha WongHighlights from S2 E6 of our Wild Hearts podcast with harrison.ai co-founder Dr. Aengus Tran and Blackbird Partner Samantha Wong: How harrison.ai built a product in 18 months that is now used for 1 in 4 chest x-rays in Australia 🤯 What Aengus learned from Vietnam's “Father of computer science.” 👨‍💻 The simple math behind the biggest problem of our century 😱 The inevitable future of the healthcare industry according to Samantha Wong 🤓

Samantha Wong, partner at Blackbird Ventures, joins the hosts to explore how data and analytics play a role in early stage startups. They discuss funding rounds, investor risk, data quality, growth potential, and analyzing founder's past experiences. They also share the value of reading fiction and recommend books and articles. A funny outtake concludes the episode.