Medical Research
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Masters of Scale 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC 
Capital Allocators
4 statements about Medical Research, every show
Milken: Over 50% of Economic Growth in Past 200 Years Stems From Public Health
“Most people don't realize when I'm there that the number one driver of economic growth in the last 200 years is public health and medical research, and so more than 50% of all economic growth can be attached to public health and medical research.”
Hoffman: AI synthetic data will enable medical research without privacy compromises
“One of the things that's going to come from AI is how do you look at a big pile of data and then generate a fictional piece of data that has the same characteristics of the other one? So you say, well, We should allow this AI to look through all of the medical…”
Shazeer: Developing AI Provides Greater Leverage Than Direct Medical Research
“So rather than directly working on say medical research or something I think I've got a lot more leverage, like let's push AI technology and then, you know, that can help with a lot of the rest of it.”
Andreessen: Medical research funding disproportionately favors diseases affecting wealthy older donors
“Like, in medical research, it turns out that the diseases that affect old people there's much more funding for the cure than diseases that affect young people, because the medical research funding comes from old people who have made a lot of money who have tho…”