Big Picture Medicine

Morgan Cheatham is Vice President at Bessemer Ventures and an MD Student at Brown. He was Forbes30u30 for Venture Capital. Morgan is a super smart guy who has lots of interesting theses and billion dollar ideas in health and life sciences, including ones in generative AI and biosecurity. We also spend lot of time talking about relationship-building, networking and using the content game to make it in health. 0:00 Intro 0:31 Relationship building 1:54 What you can offer people 3:33 Having strong beliefs as a competitive advantage 4:02 How to develop unique theses in health 6:56 How to avoid just following trends and have original ideas 10:09 How to network 13:15 How to use content as a USP in health 19:58 Is content-creation for charlatans? 21:54 Predictions in health: Generative AI + BioSecurity 27:19 BioSecurity Idea 29:27 Billion $ Health Ideas  31:43 Generative AI in healthcare 34:11 Book recommendations 37:06 Habits You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor and Founder of Span Health (acquired by EightSleep). We discuss: 0:00 David Sinclair's New Ageing Paper — Legit? 15:52 Amazon RxPass — All Hype? 23:37 Metformin is San Francisco's New Birth Control  30:58 Decline in Disruptive Science — Why? Links David Sinclair's Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01570-7 Nature Decline in Disruptive Science Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

New series. We brainstorm billion $ health ideas. Dr Chris Lovejoy is a Cambridge-trained Medical Doctor, Startup Founder and Data Scientist specialising in medical AI and health informatics. He has an IQ of between 4000–5000. Find out what he's working on at www.chrislovejoy.me. 0:00 Intro  0:10 Generative AI   28:55 DTC Weight Loss Clinics  45:27 Cross Border Care You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Dr Anas Nader is the CEO and Co-founder of Patchwork Health; an end-to-end workforce solution which helps health systems tackle the staffing crisis. They have raised over $30M.   0:00 Intro  0:29 Why Anas has more employees than WhatsApp  9:24 How to get your product into healthcare providers  12:38 Business opportunities in health-tech  15:22 Habits that have helped Anas  17:11 Similarities between surgical decision-making and startups  18:21 Resource recommendations  22:10 Why you need an executive coach   We talk about why the patchwork  team is bigger than WhatsApp’s, how to get your product into healthcare systems and key decision making frameworks Anas has learned. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Tess Cosad is the Co-founder and CEO of Béa Fertility; who have raised £2.2M in an effort to democratise access to safe and affordable fertility treatment.    0:00 Intro  1:15 Lessons from PR to healthtech  2:25 Storytelling  5:29 What do others get wrong?  6:54 Does PR add value to the world?  8:01 Béa Fertility origin story  10:16 Advice on relationship-building  11:13 Getting better at pitching  12:15 Future of Béa Fertility  16:28 Benefits of at home clinical care  19:08 Do we need more babies?  20:44 China/Japan  21:57 Moore's Law in Fertility  25:17 Opportunities in fertility tech  27:23 Habits that have helped Tess  30:23 Book recommendations  31:27 Being bold   Specifically, Béa deliver kit to carry out one cycle of intracervical insemination straight to the user’s door.  She was previously in the Public Relations world, as Managing Director of Emberson Ventures and we talk about lessons healthtech startups can learn from the PR world.   We also talk about how she’s built Bea, crucial leadership advice she’s received from her mentors and big opportunities in the fertility market.   I hope you enjoy. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Guillermo Vela is the CEO and Co-Founder of NeuScience, a VC-backed TechBio company using AI to discover novel cancer biomarkers.    0:00 Intro  0:55 Eroom's Law  5:37 Contrarian View of Cancer  15:54 AI Will Not Make Drug Discovery Fast, Better or Cheaper  26:14 Failing is Not a Good Thing  26:38 TechBio Funding  34:07 Habits    He went viral, in the techbio scene, with his 'Five TechBio Myths That Must Go' article in which he explained why it doesn’t take $2.5bn to develop a drug and why technologies like AI wont’ make drug discovery faster, better or cheaper.  We discuss that article, we discuss Guillermo’s contrarian view of cancer, why we’re doing more science than ever but not seeing results and how his ADD brain is a superpower.   I hope you enjoy.   You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Dr Ivan Beckley is the Co-Founder of Suvera Health, a Google-backed virtual clinic which has raised over £6M in funding.   0:00 Intro  0:42 Ivan's Story  5:14 Making Cash?  7:07 Building Suvera  10:19 Clinician-Product Fit  11:58 Growing  14:11 Experience of Feedback  16:56 Lessons from Google  19:47 Being Black in Tech  23:20 Further Growth  25:36 How Can Someone Move Faster Than You?  28:45 Habits That Have Helped You?   Ivan started Suvera whilst in Medical School at UCL — and has since expanded it from a basic app which could help GPs (Primary Care Physicians) complete medication reviews for their patients, to a full fledged virtual care platform for people with chronic illnesses.   We dig deep into the lessons and habits that have helped Ivan grow Suvera — like how the obstacle is often the way — and how he leans into discomfort as a signal of future success. We speak about how he changed the minds of people who were sceptical of him, how someone building in healthcare today could move faster than him and what it’s like being a black man in healthtech.   You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Dr Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist and inventor.  He serves as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University, is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine and has given four TED and two TEDMED talks.   He’s also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founder of RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable stem cell-based regenerative therapies.   He’s also served as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.   We discuss why — despite reaching the fourth industrial revolution — healthcare seems to be stuck in the third or second. Dark horses in healthcare and some of the magic that has helped Daniel get to where he is today.    I hope you enjoy. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

How do you spend £16 billion to improve the world’s health? That is the job of Sir Jeremy Farrar, the Director of the Wellcome Trust. In 1936, British pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome left his fortune to improve the world’s health. Now Sir Jeremy must work out what to do with £16 billion over the next decade — and where to most effectively spend it. 0:00 Intro  0:47 The Third Role of Philanthropy  2:53 Appetite for Risk  5:38 What's Broken in Science Funding  8:16 Generalism vs Specialism  10:12 Why Are You Slow?  14:49 Sexy vs Incremental  17:04 How Much of Your Job Is Not Messing Things Up?  19:35 Metrics for Philanthropy  22:10 Playing the Long Game  23:20 How Do You Know You're Doing a Good Job?  28:05 First Become a King, Then a Philosopher (?)  30:00 Habits That Have Helped In Your Career  31:52 What's It Like Being Famous?  33:28 Book Recommendations By background he is a medical doctor and researcher, he has been named 12th in Fortune’s list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders, served in the UK’s SAGE group and was knighted in 2019 for his services to Global Health. I ask him about how he spends that money, how to measure philanthropic impact, problems and opportunities within research funding and just how much of his job is just not messing things up. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Dr Imran Mahmud studied Medicine at Oxford, before studying Public Health at Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship. He then ranked first in the country entering the Ophthalmology training programme — promptly leaving and joining McKinsey. In 2018 he co-founded NYE Health, raising over £4M. He is now a startup advisor, angel investor, digital health consultant and content creator. We speak about angel investing — which was traditionally a way in which high net worth individuals could invest in small startups — but is now becoming possible for many more people. We speak about the digital nomad post-economic lifestyle — and whether doing whatever you want, wherever you want actually makes you happy. And one of my favourite one of Imran’s principles: To be interesting, do interesting things. I hope you enjoy. 0:00 Intro  0:49 How to angel invest  06:47 Can anyone angel invest?  10:46 To be interesting, do interesting things  12:43 Does money buy happiness?  16:40 Does freedom make you happy?  19:47 Is homeschooling weird?  23:52 Why are successful people making content?  29:20 Content creation as a competitive advantage  32:07 Better to know how to code or know how to make content?  33:19 Managing your ego  35:43 Habits that have helped you in your career? You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io