#113 Mental Models for Health Entrepreneurship — Dr Ignacio Medrano (CEO Savana)

Big Picture Medicine

Dr Ignacio Medrano is the Founder of Savana (raised $44M dollars with over 100 employees). They use AI to unlock all the value out of clinical records and produce real world evidence.

0:00 Intro

0:34 Ignacio's story

1:30 Learnings from Neurology -> Entrepreneurship

3:27 How to build good health products/services

5:03 Downsides of being a doctor in health entrepreneurship

7:21 Just in case vs just in time learning

9:14 Perils of perfectionism in healthcare

12:34 Do you need to be a d**k to be a good leader?

14:27 Dunbar's number — leading bigger organisations

17:52 Differences in operating in Europe

20:12 Diagnostic medical AI is a waste of time

23:15 SWOT analysis of Savana

26:07 Threats to Savana — LLMs?

29:22 Being eccentric as a competitive advantage

31:09 Becoming a better speaker/storyteller

34:02 Declining Royal Academy of Sciences invite

36:24 Arrogance as a competitive advantage

38:48 Tribes — exclusion criteria importance

40:27 Billion $ Health Idea

41:38 Not watching TV as a competitive advantage

46:40 Outro

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