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Adrian Aoun, Forward + Sidewalk Labs // Smart Cities + The Future of Healthcare

57m · Creator Lab - interviews with entrepreneurs and startup founders · 15 Aug 19:59

Adrian Aon is the founder & CEO of Forward. They've raised more than $225mil from the world's leading VCs to "build an insurance-free healthcare system from the ground-up”.

Before that, he was the Director of Special Projects for Google's CEO & founder of Sidewalk Labs, the startup at Google tasked with re-inventing cities & sold Wavii to Google for $30mil.

Watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/IwO12HgtWqw

Timestamps

  • (00:00:00) - Intro    
  • (00:00:31) - Sponsor: Justworks    
  • (00:03:21) - Sidewalk Labs    
  • (00:11:40) - Director Of Special Projects at Google    
  • (00:15:23) - What Is Forward    
  • (00:18:43) - What Is Wrong With The US Health Care System    
  • (00:22:15) - Life Expectancy In The Bronze Age    
  • (00:24:11) - Sponsor: Bambee
  • (00:25:21) - Sponsor: Linkedin Jobs    
  • (00:26:24) - How US Health Care Can Be Improved
  • (00:33:07) - Using Technology To Improve Health Care    
  • (00:35:45) - What Is The Body Scanner Doing That We Couldn't Do Before
  • (00:42:45) - Prenuvo Whole Body Scan
  • (00:49:28) - Best Way To Go About Health Care    
  • (00:52:59) - Health Care As A Product
  • (00:56:11) - Outro

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