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Ilana

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

But what helped you get up?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

But what helped you get up?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

Andrew Lacey. If you want to hear somebody that is now seriously changing the world, it's really incredible to see that, but it's also incredible to see how we started. So founder and CEO of Prenuvo is a really transformative health company, which in basically one hour using MRI can detect cancer, stage one, and 500 other medical conditions. That is amazing.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

Andrew Lacey. If you want to hear somebody that is now seriously changing the world, it's really incredible to see that, but it's also incredible to see how we started. So founder and CEO of Prenuvo is a really transformative health company, which in basically one hour using MRI can detect cancer, stage one, and 500 other medical conditions. That is amazing.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

But Andrew, this is completely not what you studied. It's not how you started. Can you take us back in time for a second?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

But Andrew, this is completely not what you studied. It's not how you started. Can you take us back in time for a second?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

What do you think they were looking for?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

What do you think they were looking for?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

So you moved to a new country, which is on its own, not that easy to do. By the way, I remember the first time I got to drive in Silicon Valley and I would see the Googles and the Yahoos. These are real companies. Like it was really cool. And I assume you probably had a similar.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

So you moved to a new country, which is on its own, not that easy to do. By the way, I remember the first time I got to drive in Silicon Valley and I would see the Googles and the Yahoos. These are real companies. Like it was really cool. And I assume you probably had a similar.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

It's interesting because you don't feel like you can find a job and you somehow stumbled on entrepreneurship, which I think objectively is harder. Was there fear?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

It's interesting because you don't feel like you can find a job and you somehow stumbled on entrepreneurship, which I think objectively is harder. Was there fear?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

You basically start from scratch to some extent. Obviously you have you, but you can define you because nobody knows you and there's no real expectations. So you're deciding to start this company. Talk to us a little bit about how this goes and what are some of the learnings from that first experience?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

You basically start from scratch to some extent. Obviously you have you, but you can define you because nobody knows you and there's no real expectations. So you're deciding to start this company. Talk to us a little bit about how this goes and what are some of the learnings from that first experience?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

So you moved from law to entrepreneurship. By the way, did you get weird comments about it from family, friends, or was that pretty much you were young and it's okay?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

So you moved from law to entrepreneurship. By the way, did you get weird comments about it from family, friends, or was that pretty much you were young and it's okay?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

I can see you're the type that loves adventure. You're the type that goes all in. Tell us a little bit about this company. What does it teach you? And again, it was sold for Disney, right? There's definitely some ticking box of success, but I want to hear a little bit of what that journey was like.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

I can see you're the type that loves adventure. You're the type that goes all in. Tell us a little bit about this company. What does it teach you? And again, it was sold for Disney, right? There's definitely some ticking box of success, but I want to hear a little bit of what that journey was like.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

Exactly. But tell us about a hard moment. Again, entrepreneurship always has a lot of hard moments. So if you're willing to share from this company or another one, share a little bit about a hard moment and kind of that learning from it. Because we grow a lot of muscle from these.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
The Accidental Entrepreneur: How Andrew Lacy Turned Rejection into Health Tech Innovation | E58

Exactly. But tell us about a hard moment. Again, entrepreneurship always has a lot of hard moments. So if you're willing to share from this company or another one, share a little bit about a hard moment and kind of that learning from it. Because we grow a lot of muscle from these.