In this episode, Scott Becker shares four insightful thoughts.
Chapter 1: What are the four thoughts for the day?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast, and here are sort of four thoughts for the day. First, we look at almost any business, and one of the things that's so great about the large, large businesses, meaning the Amazons of the world, the Apples of the world, the Uniteds of the world,
Chapter 2: How should businesses approach service line decisions?
is their ability to enter service lines and then make the decision that all of us have to do on a less diversified basis. These guys could do it on a big diversified basis, which is this concept of double down, double down on a service line, to abandon the service line or you stay the course. And those are three concepts we look at constantly.
Chapter 3: What does it mean to double down on a service line?
And the issue being, I was watching this from United as they sort of pivoted out of the urgent care business, or at least partially, It's this constant ability to have great data, great analytics, lots of service lines, and be able to make these choices. Are we doubling down on this? Are we staying the course on this? Or are we abandoning this?
Chapter 4: When should a business abandon a service line?
And as you get bigger, and as you have enough service lines, you can make those choices When you're running a point business, a single point of service business, you've got to figure out in that business and what you're doing. Are you doubling down? Are you abandoning? Are you staying the course? And I think it's a fascinating discussion constantly.
Chapter 5: Why is gratitude important in business relationships?
So that's the number one thought today is just double down, stay the course or abandon the business. The second thing I see in people in a business is this. There are some people that are the most thankful, appreciative people ever. And my goodness, do I love getting a chance to work with and deal with those people. Just a total pleasure, some people to work with.
Everything you do, they're very appreciative. They're very thankful. They get the value in it. And those are just lovely people to work with. So that's the second thought for today's business.
The third one is five of the healthcare companies that we're watching this year, this was prompted by watching some of the Hippocratic AI release this morning, an interview that was done with Hippocratic AI and General Catalyst between Munjil Shah and Hemant Taneja, brilliant people. But five of the companies we're watching this year, Abridge AI,
Akasa, Hippocratic AI, Nimbo Solutions, and Midstream. We'll also continue to watch the great success of Intuitive and Lintas, and we're thankful every day to the help that we get from a company called MedHQ. So those are three of the thoughts we'll watch today.
The fourth thought is, and this is just we're thankful, we had absolute near-record advertising revenues last month on the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. It's very business-heavy. It's more private equity-like. We hope you enjoy it. We specialize in business-to-business webinars and podcasts. Feel free to join us anytime. Call Scott Becker for more information, 773-766-5322.
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