Investor Cyan Bannister argues in favor of nurse practitioners while evaluating Oma Health, an enablement platform for independent nurse practitioner clinics.
Disclosure
Bannister has hard rules against 50-50 co-founder splits and early acquisitions
“I have a hard rule. I have very few hard rules, and that's just one of them. If I hear that, I'm out. And the other one's fifty-fifty partnership, unless they're brothers or sisters.”
Opinion
Banister: Gecko Materials' valuation is fair for its business type
“By the way, your valuation is fine for what the type of business you are. It's, we're more commenting on the types of businesses we see. And they're, it's not about you. It's just, we do software mostly. Is really what it comes down to. But you could be a Spac…”
Opinion
Banister: Wist is well positioned to be AR's killer app
“If he executes well, and if the timing's right, and all of the pieces are lined up just right, you know, he's well positioned to have the killer app for AR. Like, I can't think of a better one, to be honest with you.”
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Banister: Geographic Limits on CT Scanners Exist Purely to Block Competition
“There's a certain number of CT scanners you can have in a certain block or like space in a town. It's not for radiation. It's not for any reason like that. It's just so that they don't have competition.”
Insight
Bannister: Early Founders Benefit More From Admitting Unknowns Than Overpreparing
“Now, I found that when people are getting a lot of no's, they over prepare, and so she's spending a lot of time to be really, really, really ready. But I guarantee you that her peers are not. And so a little bit of that sort of winging it, I know that sounds c…”
Opinion
Cyan Banister: Current events have many students reconsidering Ivy League universities
“Well, I also think because of what's going on in the world, there's a lot of people looking for other schools as well. So they're just like, I don't want to go to the Ivy Leagues, as it turns out, because there's a cohort that might not, yeah, I want to transf…”