Venkat Mocherla
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Second thing I would say is that, you know, if strategy eats culture, sorry, if culture eats strategy for breakfast, I think policy eats everything in the sector. So paying attention to, especially in the change of administration that we've just experienced, I think actually understanding what, you know, are the kind of
policy trends, whether it's the guide program coming out of CMMI, whether it's some other change that is happening to how coding might work in the Medicare Advantage plan. There's all sorts of nuances that you should pay attention to where DC does matter, or in the case of Medicaid, your local state direction matters.
I think for investors in healthcare, I think there is a tendency, frankly, to get jaded by what's worked in the past. And I do think that there is some fresh eyes that are required at times to look at something and say, gosh, we can question things.
um in a new way using first principles and so i do think there's some opportunity for people who've been in this operating in in the space uh for 30 40 years to sort of actually open a door because i do think there's some incredible work being done now that is possible where you know whether it's the cost and latency of voice that has just dramatically changed
things overnight, but, but, you know, especially in the last couple of years, um, where, um, there are now opportunities and avenues and business models are possible. You know, I talked about, you know, for a long time, people on investors were really apprehensive about SMB and mid-market type, you know, go to market motions.
And now all of a sudden, I think that actually that door is open or even, you know, questioning themselves about what is sort of the autonomous healthcare future look like. It sounds very you know, Silicon Valley-like. But I actually think there's a lot, whether it's, you know, from diagnostics to surgery to, you know, how the back office might work, that has massive implications.
And I think that future is, you know, in the words of Alan Key, it's here, it's just not evenly distributed. So I'm very excited about that. But those are some things I would share. And then maybe the final thing, Scott, is I've really been impressed by a generation of new entrepreneurs in their 20s who are coming in from the outside in.
And I've genuinely been amazed at their curiosity and their ability to learn new things and the humble attitude they're bringing. I think there was a wave of entrepreneurs that were, frankly, a little too egotistical to say, you know, we know better. That's not worked. But this next generation of entrepreneurs that are humble, curious, but are coming from the outside in,
I'm genuinely amazed and inspired by them.
Always a pleasure, Scott. Thank you so much for this, and I'm excited to continue the conversation at this time.
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
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.
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 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 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
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