#120 Billion $ Healthtech 'Soonicorn' Huma: Lessons from Jony Ive and Big Pharma — Dan Vahdat (CEO) - a podcast by Mustafa Sultan

Huma is about to reach a 1 billion dollar valuation, and is thriving while other digital health companies are dying. But what’s their secret sauce?

Dan Vahdat is the Johns Hopkins dropout — who meticulously studied the successful business practices of big pharma, and using these, has created the 'soonicorn' digital health company that’s about to take over the world of remote patient monitoring and decentralised clinical trials.

0:00 Intro
1:11 Focusing on one big thing is bullsh*t
6:33 Lessons from Jony Ive
10:02 Healthtech infrastructure play
16:04 'Ownership is everything' discussion
20:18 If you maximise impact, commercial will come
24:00 Bad design hurts me
28:56 You don't need to try and inspire anyone
30:35 Are you full of sh*t?
32:27 How does your life change when you 'make it'?
36:50 Is studying successful people a waste of time?
39:28 Outro

Podcast Links
YouTube:    / @bigpicturemedicine  
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5707RPm...

People
Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/
Dan Vahdat https://www.huma.com/

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