David Sacks
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But what do you think of this new group of people who are doing self-directed healthcare, doing two blood labs a year, putting it into a database?
Pranova with the 3D scans, Nikko, Daniel X, new company doing a $300 full body scan.
Which is what we're starting to see.
I'm taking my eight sleep data, my WHOOP data, my blood panels, and I'm putting it into all four of the major ones, asking it.
I take pictures of every one of my supplements or drinks.
What impact will this have?
Which impact will this have on sleeping?
I think that's like this gigantic win.
It's technological obscurification.
Let's call it what it is.
They're trying to use these proprietary formats always to get a technological advantage and to have a moat around their business.
And these micro hospitals, just like people are putting ADU units in the back of their homes to get an extra apartment for grandma and grandpa, or as an Airbnb, my understanding is there's a bunch of startups working on the equivalent, building a micro hospital, a room with the central services, perhaps a nurse practitioner, there's more available, and then you telemedicine in.
Just bringing the medicine to those areas without having to build a giant hospital is also a win, yeah?
The three places entrepreneurs have been reticent to take on to build new products and services.
education, housing, healthcare.
These also happen to be the ones most regulated, most controlled by the government.
So to the extent you can give them access and make it go faster, it's going to work.
The only investments we've ever made in those spaces are ones that go direct to consumer, because we know going through the government, there's just not enough
runway for those companies to get to the other side.
Let me ask you about that.