Scott Hickle

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952 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · This Startup Plans to Save a Million Lives Using Your Toilet | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E7 · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

kind of saw the vision at that point also we had no progress on blood detection we just had like a you know a notion that like yeah we think we should be able to identify microscopic blood using these advanced imaging techniques and you know here's some papers we can point you to but we hadn't built anything like that ourselves yet and so we had like proven out like the basic technology but like the advanced stuff that's like you know ultimate because i think everyone who

agrees with the premise that like life-saving but they're like can your thing actually do that exactly and like at that time it couldn't and we just got very lucky again like going back to the size of the mission one of our not one of our lead investor in that round was

When she offered to invest, I was like, why?

I can feel your excitement and your passion for what we're building.

Where does that come from?

And she shared, my husband died of cancer in his early 50s.

And all I can think about is like, what could we have done to catch it sooner?

And again, just like, thank God she was put in my life.

So Mark Andreessen has a very famous perspective on this, which is that if you are a serious founder, it is your job to find a way to get in touch with me.

Because if you can't go through the hoops of getting in touch with me, and it's not that hard, then how are you gonna break through all of the walls that it takes to build a company into something successful?

So I ran a very disciplined process.

I had a spreadsheet.

I've had my wish list of like, here are all the investors that I want to get introduced to.

Here's the firm they're at.

Here's the specific investor I want to invest in.

Here's the other similar companies like Whoop, Aura, Eight Sleep Levels that they've invested in.

You know, so I know why I want to get in touch with them.

Here's the list of all the people that I have mutual contacts to who might be able to introduce me to that person.

I got coached on this by Eric Bond, who's an investor at Hustle Fund.

And he...

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