Dr. Michael Snyder

This idea that we mostly practice sick care, not health care.

And why do you go to a physician all the time when you're healthy to get measured?

I think that's a barrier to getting measured.

So can we come up with more, you know, facile ways of measuring people?

The wearables are obviously one and they're perfect because they're

You know, passive monitoring and continuous, so you're really collecting a lot of data just in the background.

I mean, the inconvenience is wearing and charging these things.

But we don't measure what's on the inside, and I think that still has value.

And the idea about trying to set up home tests for this sort of thing I think is powerful.

So that was the motivation.

That was the motivation for our Theranos, I think, too.

And our, you know, shtick, if you will, was to try and do this.

But we're not trying to measure the exact clinical values because some of that is hard.

How do you measure LDL droplets in microsamples?

It's probably doable, but it's a lot trickier.

We were just trying to – it fits with our idea of doing deep data profiles on little drops of blood.

And the key is to find a format that would keep the analytes, as we call them, the molecules stable.

And so we tested.

We spent seven years actually trying different things, finding formats.

The old format was to use paper actually, cellulose, to collect the stuff.