Venkat Mocherla
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Sort of like, you know, my mom and dad would, you know, you have triptych maps, Scott, I don't know if you remember that, or, you know, MapQuest even, you'd print it and you bank on somebody taking, you know, hopefully you take that exit on time. That's how I compare to healthcare as a patient today.
Like, hopefully you caught something, but it's pretty retrospective and it's, you know, hopefully you know someone, et cetera. But this new age of much more proactive autonomy that you provide the patient, I think will be quite revolutionary. So you have so many different mega trends taking place right now that I think unleashed this massive opportunity for entrepreneurs in healthcare.
Yeah, I mean, look, I think that entrepreneurs have gotten to mentor over the time. I'm incredibly lucky there. So much of, you know, I think there's three things you got to think through, which is like the problem area that somebody is focused on. Second is the timing of that particular solution.
And the third, probably most important thing that I think a lot about is the founder themselves and the talent. Because building a company has been described as jumping off of a rooftop while assembling a parachute and hoping that you can land with all your parts intact, right? It's a pretty crazy act. And so it takes a very special person
Um, to go do it and they come from all backgrounds, all shapes and sizes. Um, but there are pretty extraordinary people and they tend to, you know, they're not sort of. Evenly matched in every category. I think they tend to have superpowers, um, extraordinary superpowers in one or two areas. Um, and then over time, hopefully augment themselves with the team.
So I think so much of my time, Scott is spent on, you know, I think there's a thing people obviously call, which is like, you know, product market fit, which is like, how do you have this magical moment where the solution you have, you know, um, finds this kind of incredible self-fulfilling prophecy where the market wants it and then you're off to the races.
But I think a lot about the founder problem fit, which is like, you know, is this particular founder. You know, and their superpowers and their story and their background match the problem set. Right. So, you know, when I think about, you know, some of the entrepreneurs I've gotten to, you know, partner mentor help over time.
I think there's just oftentimes health care is such a personal journey that somebody invariably has personally been affected by it, or maybe they had actually worked inside one of these large institutions or partnered with them and they got to see the problem firsthand. I think health care is one area where it's really hard to, given the complexity
to just sort of strictly go off of your intellectual understanding and a thesis. You should do that work and you should do all the market research, et cetera. But until you've gotten to these problems up close, whether as a patient, as a caregiver, or as someone who's worked inside these organizations, you don't have the fidelity of that picture to understand the exact issues.
Because I think so oftentimes, I think where things tend to go south is a technology hammer looking for a solution. And I think That doesn't quite match up. But if you understand the problem set, then you can bring the right sort of toolkit, if you will, whether it's machine learning or other tools that are available today at your arsenal if you're a technology entrepreneur.
So that sort of, I think, comes through, Scott. But they truly are incredible people that get to work on some of these problems, and some of them I've been fortunate to work with.
I think the thing that for me that is so appealing, I mean, I got to, you know, work with on the, I was actually helped, I helped build the operating platform up at, you know, ASICC's Bio and Healthcare, got to be part of an amazing team of both operators and investors. And I had a blast working there and building those efforts up. But I think, I think to me, I'm a builder at heart.
I was, you know, I got to be, part of the build, uh, there and see, um, that group of amazing investors and operators scale, uh, to an incredible portfolio over time.
Um, and then I, you know, for me though, I think that the thread that is, and you mentioned Malinka and there's, um, there's others, I think there's another person, um, who was on the Andreessen growth team has also started a company named Mayhole, but the, the, the, you know, the, the clear thing for me is I like taking on big hairy problems with a small group of people.
And I think that is at my heart. You know, I like to build things. I like to take on things. And I think the other aspect of this is I think, you know, for me, we're, you know, so passionate about the early stage journey is you have to be a practitioner in the field to understand all the areas. And honestly, I think out of the last 15 years, I've seen the mobile revolution, the cloud revolution.
I think this is the most exciting time in this era of intelligence with AI. I think it's the most amount of time you think about the compute available, the data, the algorithms, the talent. Genuinely, I think we're about to enter a magical area where I know people have been really burnt out by the promise of technology solving things.
The joke, you know, I tend to have is for the longest time for every technology that we've introduced inside the hospital, we've introduced, you know, we've asked for a tech to come with it, right? Because it's just like, gosh, these are some really, you know, incredibly challenging piece of technology. It's not necessarily improving someone's life. It's actually
um you know it needs a lot of hand holding it requires a lot of um administrative burden to manage these things you know um the emr has you know burnt out a lot of physicians right and so but i think out of all the eras we're in this is probably the most exciting to be an entrepreneur um i genuinely think that you could just achieve a lot more i mean if you think about the tools available through you know whether it's github copilot or cursor or others like there's
suggested code that can assist engineers. So you have more productivity there. People are honestly more open. They're delighted by it and not generally tired of new solutions. They're actually open and they are curious. So that's the fundamental reason that made me want to jump in to start a company.
Yeah, I mean, look, I think, again, you know, it's sort of, if you think about the large buckets of work There is the back office work, the operational and financial implications of that. There's the clinical operations piece, and then there's the clinical piece. I think that in all three of these areas, there's massive amounts of innovation and excitement.
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