According to Business Insider, Omada Health has quietly filed its S-1 to prepare for an IPO. Here's how Sean Duffy (CEO & Co-founder) built it.

0:00 Intro

0:17 Signing first customer

1:51 How to have good ideas in healthcare

4:00 Why metabolic health is a hard area to innovate in

5:18 What the MVP product looked like

11:16 Sean's secret tactics

14:55 Operational innovation as a differentiator

20:19 The Omada playbook — is it repeatable?

25:31 What boss moves have you made Sean?

29:37 The difference between good and great

32:29 Sean's best tip on selling in enterprise healthcare

33:35 Sean's advice to himself

Links

Omada Health: https://www.omadahealth.com

Dr Mustafa Sultan: ⁠⁠https://www.musty.io⁠

Dr Aengus Tran is the CEO of Harrison.ai — an Australian radiology AI startup who have raised $160M.

Harrison.ai just released their radiology foundation model, Harrison.rad.1. And it's really good.

0:00 Intro

2:25 I'm glad I didn't found my startup in the US

4:21 Partnering with a clinical operator is key

7:28 Scrappy stories from the early days

11:17 Where human radiologists outperform AI (zero-shot learning)

17:23 Big bets on the future of radiology

21:18 What happens when GPT-8 arrives?

25:29 How can AI reach suprahuman radiology performance?

28:58 What boss moves did you make?

Links

Harrison.ai: ⁠https://harrison.ai⁠

Dr Mustafa Sultan: ⁠https://www.musty.io⁠

Michael Meucci (CEO) transformed Arcadia — formerly a mid-sized consultancy into a healthcare platform with $100M of Annual Recurring Revenue. How?

Lots of smart moves, including becoming really good at enterprise healthcare selling. Here's how he did it.

Links

Arcadia: https://arcadia.io/

Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/

Dr Elina Berglund is the CEO/Co-founder of Natural Cycles, which she has grown to 2M users. When every other app seemed to be free — she made a brave decision: She charged her users a monthly fee. And it worked...

0:57 - The Birth of Natural Cycles 2:57 - The Decision to Charge from the Start 3:47 - Building Trust Through Pricing 4:23 - From Personal Struggles to Public Solution 5:52 - Creating the Fail-Safe Algorithm 6:32 - Collaboration with CERN Colleagues 7:13 - The Human Body: Complex Beyond Measure 8:37 - The Promise and Challenge of Wearables 10:16 - Understanding User Behavior 11:04 - Gaining Regulatory Approval 12:26 - Secrets to Growth and Marketing 13:43 - The Challenge of Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare 16:02 - Data-Driven Decision Making 17:13 - Instincts Versus Data 19:01 - Staying Honest with Data 21:20 - Calibrating Communication for Investors 22:30 - Benefits of Being Profitable 24:08 - Data as a Superpower 24:59 - Overcoming Negative PR 27:13 - Future of Contraception 29:30 - Impact of Roe v. Wade Overturning

Links

Natural Cycles: https://www.naturalcycles.com/

Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/

Konstantin started Kaia Health after paying $50,000 to cure his back pain at an elite pain rehab centre. It worked. But it seemed stupid. Why did this need to cost $50,000?

Kaia Health has since raised $125M and helped 625,000 users.

0:00 The 90 second story

1:22 How did he grow 20% every week?

2:15 Market timing is everything

7:43 We never put pressure on this making any money

10:51 How does an app cure back pain?

14:43 US vs Germany for digital health entrepreneurs

16:40 Go to market of Kaia Health

19:51 Why raise so much money?

24:57 The hero license

Links

Kaia Health: https://kaiahealth.com/

Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/

Jon Ronson is one of the most interesting people alive today — period. He’s the author of the Men Who Stare at Goats, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and The Psychopath Test — which spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His two Ted talks have been watched 20 million times, his books have been brought to life by George Clooney on the big screen, he has written screenplays for Netflix blah blah blah. Don’t believe me, listen to a pitch Jon wrote for ‘the Psychopath Test’. If you are not dying to hear what happens next — then, I don’t what to tell you…

0:00 Jon's pitch for the Psychopath Test

1:41 Jon's story

6:00 Strategies Jon used to bypass career gatekeepers

7:03 Would Jon Ronson be on Substack/podcasting

12:05 Does Jon Ronson pay attention to analytics? Post mortems

16:26 Startup philosophy applied to storytelling

19:08 Writing Advice from Tim Ferriss: Jon's opinion on doing interesting things to write better

24:59 Does Jon Ronson like being famous?

28:49 Analysis of 'The Psychopath Test' pitch to Ira Glass

37:30 Should you make decision based on what would be a good story

38:48 Jon Ronson's habits for creative success

Max Parmentier is the CEO of Birdie, a Series B AgeTech startup who have raised $52M from the likes of Sofina, Omers Ventures and Index Ventures — and captured 10% of the UK market whilst currently scaling into Europe.

0:00 Intro

2:37 Shopify vs Amazon model in AgeTech

7:26 Product pivots: D2C never wins

11:56 Predictive AI AgeTech

13:58 I pitch an idea to Max

19:34 Lessons building Birdie

24:13 Leaving money on the table for purpose

Links

Birdie: https://www.birdie.care/

Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/

Tom Wicher is CEO of DrDoctor — who have served over 20M patients and just raised £10M in their recent Series A round. But he spent the first 7 years bootstrapping, and diverged from his colleagues: Opting for the slow and steady gentle disruption path. Why?

0:00 Gentle disruption beats move fast and break things

3:36 Picking a problem in healthcare

5:44 Behavioural change theory

7:52 Stop treating patients like kids

10:30 Systems-level efficiency vs personalisation

13:02 Why don't patients show up for their appointments?

16:02 Overbooking: Learning from airlines

18:54 Carrot or stick: Motivating health behaviors

22:35 There's no big conspiracy in healthcare

26:24 PIFU model of patient booking

28:14 Sometime it's better not to empower patients

31:16 Habits/frameworks that have helped Tom succeed

Links

DrDoctor: https://www.drdoctor.co.uk/

Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/