Venkat Mocherla

Yeah, happy to, Scott. So great to do this with you, and I'm genuinely excited for this conversation. I've been quite lucky in my career. I've been in healthcare now for nearly 15 years, and my fortune is I've been at the intersection of technology, healthcare delivery,

Yeah, happy to, Scott. So great to do this with you, and I'm genuinely excited for this conversation. I've been quite lucky in my career. I've been in healthcare now for nearly 15 years, and my fortune is I've been at the intersection of technology, healthcare delivery,

and company creation um so i started my career scott you know believe it or not 15 years ago we're talking about value-based care primary care transformation so i was at davida and a handful of us actually were hand-picked to figure out the future of the business beyond ckd and dialysis and so i got to work with a group of people

and company creation um so i started my career scott you know believe it or not 15 years ago we're talking about value-based care primary care transformation so i was at davida and a handful of us actually were hand-picked to figure out the future of the business beyond ckd and dialysis and so i got to work with a group of people

many of whom I'm still in touch with, started a company called Palladina Health, which is now called Everside and now part of Marathon, I believe, which was the early innings of direct primary care and primary care transformation. And that was for me a blast because I was technically part of a 75,000 employee company.

many of whom I'm still in touch with, started a company called Palladina Health, which is now called Everside and now part of Marathon, I believe, which was the early innings of direct primary care and primary care transformation. And that was for me a blast because I was technically part of a 75,000 employee company.

You know, $6 billion, Fortune 500, but really we're just three or four of us trying to figure out a new company. And for me, as somebody, I grew up in India and I grew up in Silicon Valley, that bug of starting something from scratch kind of got onto me in 2010.

You know, $6 billion, Fortune 500, but really we're just three or four of us trying to figure out a new company. And for me, as somebody, I grew up in India and I grew up in Silicon Valley, that bug of starting something from scratch kind of got onto me in 2010.

I also, because, you know, I'm a big believer in not just thinking about American healthcare, but also around the world, I actually got to go work In the Middle East, I got to work in Europe. I got to work in Canada for a research and consulting firm called the Advisory Board.

I also, because, you know, I'm a big believer in not just thinking about American healthcare, but also around the world, I actually got to go work In the Middle East, I got to work in Europe. I got to work in Canada for a research and consulting firm called the Advisory Board.

And then about 10 years ago, Scott became convinced that machine learning and AI applications in healthcare are going to play a big role. Fortunate enough to spend... to get to know three wonderful entrepreneurs out of Silicon Valley, a company that's now called Qventus.

And then about 10 years ago, Scott became convinced that machine learning and AI applications in healthcare are going to play a big role. Fortunate enough to spend... to get to know three wonderful entrepreneurs out of Silicon Valley, a company that's now called Qventus.

And that was, Scott, if you remember 10 years ago, we're talking about AI now, left, right, and center, but 10 years ago, people were just talking about SaaS and healthcare.

And that was, Scott, if you remember 10 years ago, we're talking about AI now, left, right, and center, but 10 years ago, people were just talking about SaaS and healthcare.

And that was an amazing thing to go see something not at a Fortune 500 scale, but, you know, see a couple of people and a couple of desks in a coworking space with an idea really that got started at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View to see how it scales. How does an idea like AI in at that point in time applying it for length of stay in clinical operations, how do you take it to many hospitals?

And that was an amazing thing to go see something not at a Fortune 500 scale, but, you know, see a couple of people and a couple of desks in a coworking space with an idea really that got started at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View to see how it scales. How does an idea like AI in at that point in time applying it for length of stay in clinical operations, how do you take it to many hospitals?

And we did that. I was there through the series B, like you said, got to got to lead a bunch of the sort of business building efforts.

And we did that. I was there through the series B, like you said, got to got to lead a bunch of the sort of business building efforts.

and work with that amazing team and then join Andreessen Horowitz where I was fortunate enough to work with I think some of the best minds in investing and operating and had a real passion for how do you develop a platform that can help and scale the best ideas, the best entrepreneurs to change and transform healthcare. So I was there for about five years

and work with that amazing team and then join Andreessen Horowitz where I was fortunate enough to work with I think some of the best minds in investing and operating and had a real passion for how do you develop a platform that can help and scale the best ideas, the best entrepreneurs to change and transform healthcare. So I was there for about five years