1 hr 9 min
🏥 Making Healthcare a Product, Not a Service | Adrian Aoun (Founder and CEO, Forward) The Peel
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Adrian Aoun is the Founder and CEO of Forward Health, which is rebuilding healthcare as a product, not a service. Forward is supported by investors like Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Softbank, Expa, Marc Beinoff, Ashton Kutcher, The Weeknd, Lee Linden, Josh Kushner, First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt, DCVC, and more, Before starting Forward, Adrian worked with Larry Page at Google to setup and launch new companies inside of Alphabet. He joined Google through the acquisition of his AI startup Wavii, and spent his first year at Google helping create and build its AI division. Adrian was on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is an angel investor in companies including Stripe, Uber, Anduril, and more.
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In this episode, we discuss:
Rad the transcript: https://www.thespl.it/p/making-healthcare-a-product-not-a
- How the healthcare industry actually works
- Why poor incentives make technology in the industry ROI-negative
- The founding story of Forward
- Why healthcare should be a product, not a service
- Building doctor's offices like Tesla builds cars
- Being Larry Page’s right hand man at Google
- Building a “healthcare operating system” like Apple builds the app store
- Adrian’s contrarian views on the food industry
- Why animal farming is a bigger climate issue than you might think
- Zuck: the man in the arena
Where to find Turner:
Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak
Where to find Adrian:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adrianaoun
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianaoun
Read the transcript: https://www.thespl.it/p/making-healthcare-a-product-not-a
Production and distribution by: https://www.supermix.io
For sponsorship inquiries: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebvhBlDDfHJyQdQWs8RwpFxWg-UbG0H-VFey05QSHvLxkZPQ/viewform
Adrian Aoun is the Founder and CEO of Forward Health, which is rebuilding healthcare as a product, not a service. Forward is supported by investors like Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Softbank, Expa, Marc Beinoff, Ashton Kutcher, The Weeknd, Lee Linden, Josh Kushner, First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt, DCVC, and more, Before starting Forward, Adrian worked with Larry Page at Google to setup and launch new companies inside of Alphabet. He joined Google through the acquisition of his AI startup Wavii, and spent his first year at Google helping create and build its AI division. Adrian was on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is an angel investor in companies including Stripe, Uber, Anduril, and more.
Brought to you by Secureframe, the automated compliance platform built by compliance experts: https://secureframe.com/request-demo-4?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=062023-thesplit
In this episode, we discuss:
Rad the transcript: https://www.thespl.it/p/making-healthcare-a-product-not-a
- How the healthcare industry actually works
- Why poor incentives make technology in the industry ROI-negative
- The founding story of Forward
- Why healthcare should be a product, not a service
- Building doctor's offices like Tesla builds cars
- Being Larry Page’s right hand man at Google
- Building a “healthcare operating system” like Apple builds the app store
- Adrian’s contrarian views on the food industry
- Why animal farming is a bigger climate issue than you might think
- Zuck: the man in the arena
Where to find Turner:
Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak
Where to find Adrian:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adrianaoun
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianaoun
Read the transcript: https://www.thespl.it/p/making-healthcare-a-product-not-a
Production and distribution by: https://www.supermix.io
For sponsorship inquiries: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebvhBlDDfHJyQdQWs8RwpFxWg-UbG0H-VFey05QSHvLxkZPQ/viewform
1 hr 9 min