Agarwala: Every healthcare company could eventually resemble a consumer company
Vineeta Agarwala · Scaling Medicaid Innovation with Rajaie Batniji, Sanjay Basu, and Afia Asamoah · Mar 20, 2025 · at 2:18
Vineeta Agarwala is a general partner at a16z Bio + Health. She shares a recurring thesis on the convergence between healthcare platforms and consumer software.
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“As we've said on this podcast before, every healthcare company somewhere deep down could start to look like a consumer company.”
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