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Tales from the Trenches with Lisa Earnhardt, CEO of Intersect ENT

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Digital health in the context of life: A conversation with David Van Sickle

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From academia to entrepreneurship: A conversation with Exicure CEO David Giljohann

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Corey McCann answers: Can an app be as good as a drug?

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From high tech to healthcare: a seasoned entrepreneur learns ‘pacing’

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Empowering people to participate in better health outcomes

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One entrepreneur’s anthropological fascination with health, poverty, and marijuana

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Get Rid of Transactions, Focus on Relationships

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Taco Joints to Video Games to Healthcare: Sterling Lanier’s Journey to Startup Success

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Dr. Jordan Shlain Brings 5-star Service to Healthcare

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Tales from the Trenches with Lisa Earnhardt, CEO of Intersect ENT

Apr 3, 2019

Last winter, Lisa Earnhardt joined us at MATTER to share her ten-year journey as CEO of Intersect ENT — one of only a handful of companies in the med tech space focused on ear, nose and throat care. Since 2008, Lisa has grown her team from 12 to more than 350 employees, orchestrated a successful IPO and guided the company through sever...
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Digital health in the context of life: A conversation with David Van Sickle

Nov 15, 2018

Earlier this month, David Van Sickle joined us to share his journey as co-founder and CEO of Propeller Health, a digital health company that is bringing treatment for COPD and asthma into the 21st century.
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From academia to entrepreneurship: A conversation with Exicure CEO David Giljohann

Oct 25, 2018

Earlier this month, David Giljohann, CEO of immunotherapy company Exicure, shared his entrepreneurial story at Tales from the Trenches. David’s journey has taken him from graduate training in a university lab to the helm of Exicure, a Chicago-based biotechnology company that is pioneering the field of immunotherapy. In just seven years, Da...
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Corey McCann answers: Can an app be as good as a drug?

Jul 26, 2018

Corey McCann, founder and CEO of PEAR Therapeutics, is among the trailblazing entrepreneurs developing “digital therapeutics”: a new class of software solutions that undergo clinical studies to prove efficacy. Last fall, PEAR’s reSET® technology — designed to treat patients with substance use disorder — became the first
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From high tech to healthcare: a seasoned entrepreneur learns ‘pacing’

Mar 23, 2018

An interview with SilverVue CEO Will West Will West is a prolific tech entrepreneur with a long track record of success. In 2013, he took Control4, the leading whole-home automation company, public. Before that, he co-founded iBAHN (originally STSN), the worldwide leader in broadband services for business travelers. He has raised close to...
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Empowering people to participate in better health outcomes

Jan 15, 2018

An Interview with Evidation Health CEO Deb Kilpatrick Exercise. Sleep. Social activity. We know that health is influenced by behavior. And yet companies across the healthcare industry struggle to quantify how a person’s behavior in the real world affects health outcomes.
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One entrepreneur’s anthropological fascination with health, poverty, and marijuana

Oct 30, 2017

An Interview with Green Thumb Industries CEO Pete Kadens 6/15/2018 update: Congrats to Pete Kadens and Green Thumb Industries on going public in Canada. Read more.
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Get Rid of Transactions, Focus on Relationships

Oct 16, 2017

A Q&A with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, Co-founder of Iora Health Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle is on a mission to reinvent primary care.
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Taco Joints to Video Games to Healthcare: Sterling Lanier’s Journey to Startup Success

Jul 12, 2017

“The things that I was trying the hardest at failed, and the accidental one worked out.”
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Dr. Jordan Shlain Brings 5-star Service to Healthcare

Jun 26, 2017

When a patient suggested he build a software solution, Dr. Jordan Shlain was skeptical.
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