| 摘要 | I’m deeply skeptical that I have much knowledge to impart to Harvard Business School (HBS) students. After all, they’re the ones clever enough to pursue a two year advanced degree (“six months of education crammed into two years,” they joke), while across town, my classmates and I ran gels, plated cells, memorized structures, and took call for a decade or more (in some cases) — and all for the privilege of eventually working for our fleece-vested colleagues (see also this 2011 Scott Gottlieb piece, and my 2012 Forbes post).
Even so, I was recently invited to appear as a guest on a new podcast out of HBS called “Under The Datascope,” where I answered questions about my experiences and perspective as a physician, scientist, technologist, drug developer, and investor. The episode (here), released today, is part of a series hosted by Gabriel Eichler and sponsored by the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (Go Pats!) at HBS, featuring interviews with people working on and thinking about data, analytics, and precision medicine.
There’s a lot of content packed into the nineteen minute episode, and I thought it might make sense to capture some of the highlights – though I suspect the entire episode, and the series more generally, is likely to be of interest to regular readers of this column.
12 Takeaways:
Bonus: in honor of the Krafts, here is a bonus recommendation for health entrepreneurs: a captivating documentary (even if, for some reason, you’re not a fan of either the Patriots or of Tom Brady) called “The Brady 6,” highlighting Brady’s unexpected rise to superstardom by focusing on the career trajectories of the six quarterbacks drafted ahead of Brady in the 2000 draft (he went in the sixth round, and was the 199th pick overall). It’s an incredible story of persistence, determination, a bit of luck to be sure — and the importance of never counting yourself out, whether you’re an overlooked college quarterback or an aspiring entrepreneur. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised to see these qualities in Brady — after all, he grew up right here in Silicon Valley. |
