Flight path 04 // 12 missions // 8h 30m
They kept the MD and built anyway. Physicians who turned clinical frustration into companies — and what the ward teaches you about product that no accelerator can.
Dr Shiv Rao — CEO & Co-founder, Abridge
Building the company, the threat of LLMs like ChatGPT, and operating from abundance.
Ben Maruthappu — Co-Founder & CEO, Cera Care
What's it like running a company which has raised $90M? Dr Ben Maruthappu is the co-founder and CEO of Cera Care, a home care company.
Dr Claire Novorol — Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Ada Health
Ada Health co-founder Dr Claire Novorol on leaving medicine, whether the NHS is where startups go to die, and taking a calculated career risk.
Dr Aengus Tran — CEO & Co-founder, Harrison.ai
Harrison.ai's models read millions of scans a year. Aengus Tran on building clinical-grade AI from Sydney and taking it global.
Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram — Plastic Surgeon & CEO, Proximie
Augmented-reality telepresence in surgery, her surgeon-to-CEO journey and advice for doctorpreneurs.
Dr Yusuf Sherwani — CEO, QuitGenius
Why the overnight success wasn't overnight — decision-making, mental models, and failure as a healthtech founder.
Dr Stephanie Eltz — CEO & Co-founder, Doctify
Dr Stephanie Eltz, Trauma Surgeon and CEO & Co-founder of Doctify — basically Yelp/Trustpilot for doctors, read by 50M+ patients.
Dr Ignacio Medrano — Founder, Savana
The mental models behind building a clinical-AI company that unlocks real-world evidence from medical records.
Dr Joshua Landy — Co-founder & CMO, Figure 1
Figure 1 is sometimes described as Instagram for doctors — but it lets healthcare professionals share and discuss cases across the world.
Dr David Albert — Founder & Chief Medical Officer, AliveCor
His formula and framework for innovating, lessons from Eric Topol and Vinod Khosla, and whether everything in medicine should be democratised.
Shafi Ahmed — Surgeon & Co-founder, Medical Realities
Live-streaming operations with Google Glass and VR — and democratising surgical education.
Abdullah Albeyatti — CEO & Co-Founder, Medicalchain
Dr Abdullah Albeyatti gives an Explain-Like-I'm-Five explanation of blockchain and how it can manage patient records, clinical trials and organ donation.