Smith: Fast whole-body MRI startups are just Silicon Valley branding
Jack Smith · Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good · Aug 23, 2024 · at 24:57
Jack Smith questions whether tech-enabled MRI companies like Q Bio possess genuine technical differentiation over international screening options.
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“So I've done that in America, and they similarly say, like, okay, well, I was the chief medical officer at Google, and we have all these Google engineers, so we do AI, And that's why we can do it in 45 minutes instead of four hours, et cetera, like you're saying, Sean, I did the same thing in India and got exactly the same results, and I was only doing it for 40 minutes. Like, I think they're just Silicon Valley branding.”
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