Steve Brown

Well, when you're doing it for yourself, when you're the first customer, you kind of know what you need and you kind of can keep iterating it and improving it because you're customer number one.

It's not that I really wanted to be customer number one for a cancer AI application, but it is really a phenomenal use of AI I have found based on just using it for myself.

You play the cards you're dealt, right?

Yeah, well, I mean, I was doing a lot of different things in AI.

I was throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall and the challenge was it was all sticking.

So it was like, what am I going to do?

So this wasn't the mission I chose.

It's the mission that chose me, but it is really a phenomenal use of AI because cancer is so complex and everybody's cancer is different.

And it's the first time we've had a technology that can handle the kind of the level of complexity that we need.

And it's been very, very instrumental for me in understanding my own condition and helping me figure out how to get the best possible treatment that maps to my own kind of genetics of my own cancer.

And if a million people get the latest COVID variant, that's a million people with the identical pathogen.

But if a million people get cancer, that's a million different genetically unique diseases because it's your own unique gene.

mutated in some unique way.

So we kind of lump things together and say it's all cancer, but it's really it's a million different diseases.

So it's very, very complex.

And AI is the first thing that we've had that can just deal with so many variables at the same time.

I studied physics and computer science at Stanford and went right into Silicon Valley startup world looking for the biggest problem in the biggest industry to work on.

That kind of led me to healthcare and chronic care technology because healthcare is the biggest industry and the biggest problem is that 70% of healthcare is all the stuff that kind of comes down to chronic disease and our own decisions and our own behavior.

But I was always working on applications for somebody else's problem.

Yeah.