#124 Wearable Data is Bullsh*t Debate — Maitham Dib (Vital YC21) - a podcast by Mustafa Sultan

People are wearing Apple Watches to their wedding days. Has this whole 'quantified self' movement gone bananas? Is any of this data actually useful?

I spoke to Maitham Dib about this. He's building Vital (YC21); a startup which makes all wearable/lab data available to other startups/companies.

0:00 Wearable data is mostly useless
3:22 The case for wearable data
6:37 Wearable data is mostly useless
8:06 Wearable data is useful
10:16 The big opportunity with wearable/lab data (startups)
14:15 Naivety as a superpower (Paul Graham)
15:45 Why building Vital is so hard
19:31 Pros/cons of an infrastructure play in healthcare
20:51 How to enterprise sales
24:09 Lessons from YCombinator
27:32 The benefits of being an immigrant

Links
Vital: https://tryvital.io/
Dr Mustafa Sultan: https://www.musty.io/

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