healthcare

28 statements across 25 episodes · 15 bullish · 7 bearish · 24 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2015 by Bob Ghoorah · across every show →

Everything said about healthcare, oldest first

Jan 13, 2015 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ghoorah: The first trillion-dollar company will be in healthcare
“I think it's going to be in healthcare.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 20:40 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Aug 31, 2015 negative
Opinion
Brochado: Healthcare and fintech are the slowest sectors for tech adoption
“Yeah, I think you know, something like I would say healthcare and probably financial services, particularly in certain sectors, can be slow moving.”
Carolina Brochado Aug 31, 2015 ▶ 14:06 20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
Sep 23, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Kocher: Specialist doctor matching yields better clinical outcomes at lower cost
“Matching a patient to a person that's very expert at their exact problem and their exact procedure leads to better outcomes and lower cost because there's fewer complications.”
Bob Kocher Sep 23, 2015 ▶ 10:35 20 VC 074: The Future of Healthcare with Bob Kocher, Partner @ Venrock
Dec 16, 2015 bullish
Disclosure
Bradley: Forward Partners Is Bullish On Consumer Fintech And Healthcare
“We, and certainly I, are pretty hot on consumer-facing financial services opportunities at the moment and we're also big believers in healthcare.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 19:04 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Apr 28, 2017 negative
Insight
Brown: 'Move fast and break things' fails in highly regulated industries
“So, so I think it's completely flawed for any business in a highly regulated industry. You know, this is obviously healthcare, a lot of FinTech. These are areas where the regulators have a huge say in what you can and can't do.”
Jason Brown Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 8:27 20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
Sep 22, 2017
Assertion Supported
Schlosser: US spends 18% of GDP on healthcare versus 10% elsewhere
“The U.S. Spends about 18% of GDP on healthcare. You know, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, other rich countries in the world spend maybe 10, 11% on healthcare, and those countries, by the way, tend to not have single-payer systems either.”
Mario Schlosser Sep 22, 2017 ▶ 3:58 20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
Sep 22, 2017 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schlosser: Healthcare is the last industry relying primarily on fax machines
“It's the last, I think, bastion pretty much anywhere in industry where the fax machine is still the primary means of communication. That is how healthcare works.”
Mario Schlosser Sep 22, 2017 ▶ 5:33 20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
May 25, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Adrian Aoun targets unsexy sectors like energy, education, and healthcare
“As an angel investor myself, frankly, I love those. I'm not looking for the Get rich quick scheme. More what I'm looking for is things that are going to have massive, massive impact on the world. What are the next Google, the next Apple, but let's go after the…”
Adrian Aoun May 25, 2018 ▶ 21:05 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
Nov 6, 2020 negative
Opinion
Weinberg: Keith Rabois is a "giant doofus" regarding healthcare
“I think the guy is a giant doofus, and I would continue to hold my belief that he's a giant doofus, and I'll be very specific about why. I think Keith Raboy is probably a phenomenal technical investor, software company investor. It seems to me to be an amazing…”
Zach Weinberg Nov 6, 2020 ▶ 31:29 20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
Dec 28, 2020 bullish
Prediction Held up
Clark: Healthcare consumers will not return to pre-pandemic in-person visits
“After we've been on board in that experience, nobody's going back to the old way. Like the old way of, I pick up the phone. I punch a lot of buttons to go through a call tree. I finally end up with a human being. They send me up on a schedule four weeks from n…”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 24:20 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Jan 13, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: The US healthcare sector shows zero software spending downturn
“In the US, there's no downturn in healthcare right now. There's nothing, and I can't imagine it's different in the UK.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 8:29 Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tunguz: Healthcare and finance enterprise AI will stay on-premises
“I think if you're in. Like finance or healthcare, you'd probably be completely on-prem for the foreseeable future.”
Tomasz Tunguz Apr 21, 2023 ▶ 33:23 Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 29, 2023 positive
Insight
Besvinick: Building in complex sectors self-selects for resilient founders
“And I think the founders that I invest in and the categories I invest in self-select for uncommonly resilient entrepreneurs. If you're building in healthcare, in climate, in education, even in some of the tools serving small businesses that I invest in, like t…”
Adam Besvinick May 29, 2023 ▶ 19:29 Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 5, 2023 positive
Opinion
TJ Parker: Amazon is the only big tech company providing real healthcare
“The thing we built and the work we did at Amazon, it's not, it's the only Big tech company that's actually providing healthcare and doing real things in healthcare”
TJ Parker Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 1:07:55 TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 5, 2023 negative
Insight
TJ Parker: Healthcare is broken because companies don't build for end consumers
“The reason that most of healthcare is as fucked up as it is, is that almost no one is actually building for the customer that's, that is using the service”
TJ Parker Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 25:07 TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 5, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
TJ Parker: Consumers will eventually shop for healthcare like any other product
“I think that Customers are ultimately going to shop healthcare like they shop everything else, and that until, until that happens, like, healthcare is going to remain as fucked up as it is right now.”
TJ Parker Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 1:10:43 TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2024
Insight
Ishbia: Healthcare private equity investing is a state-by-state game
“Especially in healthcare, where I'd say about three quarters where investing has been, it's a state by state game. Medicaid in Texas may be very different than Medicaid in Utah. You have to know the nuances, and so what would be a really good physical therapy …”
Justin Ishbia Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 21:11 Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 negative
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Very few tech startups actually understand how healthcare works
“If you want to draw a Venn diagram of companies or startups in healthcare, you've got the circle of startups with good technology, and you've got a different circle of startups that understand how healthcare actually works, and the overlap is very small.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 9:59 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 29, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Telecom and healthcare AI spending will move to core budgets within a year
“It's also at the experimental stage in my many other functions and for Core applications in the industry in, I guess, telecom the telecom industry and in healthcare, this is still In the playground, but I think it's going to evolve in the next year.”
Arthur Mensch Apr 29, 2024 ▶ 31:59 Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 23, 2024 negative
Opinion
Single-vertical focus severely caps startup TAM and company size
“If you're going to sell, A product that only goes to one vertical, you're seriously limiting the size that the company can be, right? Just think about the TAM. Like, if I'm gonna sell into healthcare, that's all I can sell into. That's, you better crush health…”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 7:45 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 16, 2024
Assertion Supported
Shah: 25% of New York Series A deals are in healthcare
“25% of series A's in New York are related to healthcare. That's a really different mix than San Francisco.”
Shardul Shah Sep 16, 2024 ▶ 46:08 Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Arison: Healthcare offerings will generate higher revenue for Grindr than travel
“I think if healthcare works it will be very large, because if you just do the math on it, right, like, a compound ED medication costs a hundred to a 130 dollars per month subscription and, you know, people, I think, average Kind of lifetime value of a user is …”
George Arison Dec 4, 2024 ▶ 10:22 George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pineau: AI in Healthcare and Science Will Make Transformative Progress Within Five Years
“There's a lot of verticals, whether healthcare or scientific discovery that I think have increased Incredible promise where we're going to see real tangible progress within five years that are going to change completely the face of what we can do. So that's pr…”
Joelle Pineau Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 51:31 Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Mansour: Compliance and regulation are mandatory for enduring fintech and healthcare startups
“I think in financial services and healthcare, The only way to build something that will last the test of time and that will truly go mainstream is to work with regulators, to do it clean, to do it right.”
Tarek Mansour Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 34:36 Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 31, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fitzpatrick: AI training will move into banking and healthcare next
“I actually think AI training will be used next in banking and healthcare, and then after that in, in many other different enterprise contexts.”
Matt Fitzpatrick Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 28:53 Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mitchell Green: AI's biggest disruption will be in manufacturing and healthcare
“I actually think the biggest disruption you're gonna see is in, like, manufacturing, is in, like, healthcare, is in you know, think about, like, the companies that can figure out how to get drugs to market much faster than anybody else. Like, I think AI could …”
Mitchell Green Mar 7, 2026 ▶ 17:30 Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 11, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
ElevenLabs utilizes verticalized sales teams in mature sectors like healthcare
“We have verticalized sales teams right now in specific markets. Markets that are much bigger or markets that are much more mature, 100%. We'll have people that only do like VFSI, only teams that do like healthcare.”
Carles Reina Apr 11, 2026 ▶ 33:27 ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 16, 2026 positive
Insight
Clinical conversations can power new healthcare AI infrastructure
“It was this thesis that this idea, the secret hiding in plain sight, that this data set, this, like these conversations, it's the most human signal and it really powers healthcare. And you can build a whole new set of rails on top of this signal.”
Shiv Rao May 16, 2026 ▶ 3:11 The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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