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Achieving Affordable Healthcare - The Exchange with Nick Soman The Exchange with KB
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In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In this latest episode, KB is joined by Nick Soman, CEO of Decent.
Learn more about our guest:
Nick Soman is the founder and CEO, of Decent, a company that is charting a new path forward for affordable health insurance in America. Nick is also a serial entrepreneur who scaled his first company to millions of users and successfully sold it to Napster prior to becoming Growth Lead at Gusto. Along with his vast experience as an entrepreneur, Soman also holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Stanford University.
Visit: www.decent.com and follow him on Twitter: @decent
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and welcome
00:42 Background
03:30 Founding Decent
07:28 Healthcare for all
08:51 Decent in detail
12:17 Eligibility
13:25 Delivering lower-priced insurance
17:27 Decent reception
20:33 Direct primary care
23:05 The concierge option versus others
26:03 The US healthcare system
28:20 What’s driving healthcare costs?
34:33 Motivations for healthcare workers
36:29 Utilizing blockchain
39:48 Plans for Decent
41:47 Seeking allies
42:05 Conclusion
In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In this latest episode, KB is joined by Nick Soman, CEO of Decent.
Learn more about our guest:
Nick Soman is the founder and CEO, of Decent, a company that is charting a new path forward for affordable health insurance in America. Nick is also a serial entrepreneur who scaled his first company to millions of users and successfully sold it to Napster prior to becoming Growth Lead at Gusto. Along with his vast experience as an entrepreneur, Soman also holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Stanford University.
Visit: www.decent.com and follow him on Twitter: @decent
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and welcome
00:42 Background
03:30 Founding Decent
07:28 Healthcare for all
08:51 Decent in detail
12:17 Eligibility
13:25 Delivering lower-priced insurance
17:27 Decent reception
20:33 Direct primary care
23:05 The concierge option versus others
26:03 The US healthcare system
28:20 What’s driving healthcare costs?
34:33 Motivations for healthcare workers
36:29 Utilizing blockchain
39:48 Plans for Decent
41:47 Seeking allies
42:05 Conclusion
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