Wolf: Legacy integration is the biggest hurdle for horizontal healthcare platforms
Daisy Wolf · Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare · May 30, 2025 · at 29:44
Daisy Wolf, partner at a16z Bio + Health, explains the operational challenges facing tech startups attempting to build horizontal marketplace platforms in healthcare.
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“Like if you're going to be the Amazon of healthcare, you've got to onboard every provider in America. You have to onboard every insurance company. You've got to work with, you know, the pharmacy benefit managers. And so it's just going to take time to infiltrate the industry. And so probably plugging into the system is the most challenging part.”
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