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Ric Elias

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1377 total appearances

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

And we're either going to get run over or...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

We are going to play in it and we'll see.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

You described this evolution from the early days of performance marketing focus into businesses all over the world that do lots of different things.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

I know healthcare is one space that you're really interested in.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

We don't have to get into the specifics of the business, but Ken, if you want, talk about what in that world seems like an opportunity and interesting to you.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

It does seem like such an important space and that's a very different world than the world you started in.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

We owned a bunch of really interesting assets.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

We own a bunch of assets that created a lot of both data and consumer's path.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

But you realize that those are kind of narrow businesses that exist for a period of time.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

We did this JV with UnitedHealthcare, who their CEO, Andrew Witte, is a fantastic CEO, a fantastic human being.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

And his view is that the healthcare company of someday, of the future, five, 10 years from now, will be very much consumer-driven, consumer-led.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

And they need to be making that investment today because they are really good in the health plan side.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

They're really good in the provider side.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

They got to get really good in the consumer side.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

And he is like, there's no way a company this big will ever figure that out.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

So I got to find a clean environment where I can make sure that we're both investing, but I need the tech.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

I need the people.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

I need the alignment of incentives.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

So we did a long-term partnership to go build this.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like The Best, CLASSICS]

And it's been great.