Big Picture Medicine

Mustafa Sultan, MD
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Mar 3, 2023 • 44min

🔥 News: David Sinclair's New Startup, Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less and ChatGPT for Drug Development

0:00 Intro  1:09 David Sinclair's New Startup   11:25 ChatGPT for Drug Development  28:32 Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less  37:38 Banter/Audience Feedback   Dr Adam Bataineh: Longevity doctor and Co-founder Span Health (acquired by EightSleep).  Dr Imran Mahmud: Investor, Oxford-trained doctor, ex-Mckinsey and Co-founder of NYE Health.  Dr Mustafa Sultan: Creator of Big Picture Medicine and Doctor.
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Feb 22, 2023 • 47min

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

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 You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io
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Feb 13, 2023 • 37min

#112 Yelp for Doctors — Dr Stephanie Eltz (CEO Doctify)

Dr Stephanie Eltz is a Trauma Surgeon and CEO and Co-founder of Doctify, which is basically Yelp/Trustpilot for Doctors. They’ve raised >£22M dollar in funding to date.   0:00 Intro  0:41 Story  2:34 Motivations  3:47 Building Doctify  8:25 Why do you have grit? Early childhood  9:21 Are patient reviews good measures of a doctor?  13:53 There is no growth hack  16:34 How to stop reviews becoming a cesspit  19:48 Monetising  21:15 It's all about the destination  22:46 Happiness as a founder  24:31 Are you full of sh*t?  26:48 First become a King, then a Philosopher  28:10 Leadership and MBTI 29:28 Habits  30:20 Insecurity and immigrant hustle  33:16 Hustling  35:00 You don't need to network  36:17 Outro You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io
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Feb 9, 2023 • 1h 10min

#111 Raising $139M, Biotech, Introversion and Happiness — Jason Foster (CEO Ori Biotech)

Jason Foster is the CEO of Ori Biotech; a cell and gene therapy company who have raised $139M in funding. He also sits on the boards of companies like GripAble, Credentially, and Auxita — and is an active angel investor. 0:00 Intro  0:34 Jason's story  5:31 What was your goal?  6:39 When did you make it?  8:31 Taking calculated risks in life  10:48 Creating value vs chasing $$  12:15 When should you say no?  16:39 How to coach people  20:53 How to find a coach?  23:37 How to do cold outreach  27:16 Being a marketer and making it in biotech  31:54 Introversion vs extroversion as a CEO/founder  35:37 How to build professional relationships, Neurolinguistic Programming  37:54 The founders first zeitgeist  42:05 Managing your ego  45:07 Disagreeable givers  45:39 Why do media?  46:29 Jason's grand theory  51:59 Why are health/life sciences/biotech unique markets?  55:28 Billion dollar health idea 1  59:57 Billion dollar health idea 2  1:04:00 Money and happiness  1:07:50 Habits that have helped Jason You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io
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Feb 4, 2023 • 30min

🔥 News: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint, Spotify Enters Health and VitaDAO Raises $4M

Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor and Founder of Span Health (acquired by EightSleep).  0:00 Intro  0:15 Bryan Johnson's Blueprint Program  12:32 Spotify's Daniel Ek Enters Healthcare  22:27 VitaDAO Raises $4.1 (from Pfizer, Balaji Srinivasan...)
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Jan 28, 2023 • 41min

#110 Networking, BioSecurity and Generative AI — Morgan Cheatham (VP Bessemer Ventures)

Morgan Cheatham is Vice President at Bessemer Ventures and an MD Student at Brown. He was Forbes30u30 for Venture Capital. Morgan is a super smart guy who has lots of interesting theses and billion dollar ideas in health and life sciences, including ones in generative AI and biosecurity. We also spend lot of time talking about relationship-building, networking and using the content game to make it in health. 0:00 Intro 0:31 Relationship building 1:54 What you can offer people 3:33 Having strong beliefs as a competitive advantage 4:02 How to develop unique theses in health 6:56 How to avoid just following trends and have original ideas 10:09 How to network 13:15 How to use content as a USP in health 19:58 Is content-creation for charlatans? 21:54 Predictions in health: Generative AI + BioSecurity 27:19 BioSecurity Idea 29:27 Billion $ Health Ideas  31:43 Generative AI in healthcare 34:11 Book recommendations 37:06 Habits You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io
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Jan 26, 2023 • 40min

🔥 News: David Sinclair's New Paper, Amazon RxPass, Decline in Disruptive Science and Metformin is the New Birth Control — With Dr Adam Bataineh

Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor and Founder of Span Health (acquired by EightSleep). We discuss: 0:00 David Sinclair's New Ageing Paper — Legit? 15:52 Amazon RxPass — All Hype? 23:37 Metformin is San Francisco's New Birth Control  30:58 Decline in Disruptive Science — Why? Links David Sinclair's Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01570-7 Nature Decline in Disruptive Science Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x
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Dec 23, 2022 • 1h 2min

#109 Billion $ Health Ideas w/ Dr Chris Lovejoy: Generative AI, DTC Weight Loss + Cross Border Care

New series. We brainstorm billion $ health ideas. Dr Chris Lovejoy is a Cambridge-trained Medical Doctor, Startup Founder and Data Scientist specialising in medical AI and health informatics. He has an IQ of between 4000–5000. Find out what he's working on at www.chrislovejoy.me. 0:00 Intro  0:10 Generative AI   28:55 DTC Weight Loss Clinics  45:27 Cross Border Care You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io
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Dec 1, 2022 • 27min

#108 Why I've Got More Employees than WhatsApp — Dr Anas Nader (CEO Patchwork Health)

Dr Anas Nader is the CEO and Co-founder of Patchwork Health; an end-to-end workforce solution which helps health systems tackle the staffing crisis. They have raised over $30M.   0:00 Intro  0:29 Why Anas has more employees than WhatsApp  9:24 How to get your product into healthcare providers  12:38 Business opportunities in health-tech  15:22 Habits that have helped Anas  17:11 Similarities between surgical decision-making and startups  18:21 Resource recommendations  22:10 Why you need an executive coach   We talk about why the patchwork  team is bigger than WhatsApp’s, how to get your product into healthcare systems and key decision making frameworks Anas has learned. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io
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Nov 25, 2022 • 32min

#107 Fertility-Tech, Cake or Death and Storytelling — Tess Cosad (Co-founder Béa Fertility)

Tess Cosad is the Co-founder and CEO of Béa Fertility; who have raised £2.2M in an effort to democratise access to safe and affordable fertility treatment.    0:00 Intro  1:15 Lessons from PR to healthtech  2:25 Storytelling  5:29 What do others get wrong?  6:54 Does PR add value to the world?  8:01 Béa Fertility origin story  10:16 Advice on relationship-building  11:13 Getting better at pitching  12:15 Future of Béa Fertility  16:28 Benefits of at home clinical care  19:08 Do we need more babies?  20:44 China/Japan  21:57 Moore's Law in Fertility  25:17 Opportunities in fertility tech  27:23 Habits that have helped Tess  30:23 Book recommendations  31:27 Being bold   Specifically, Béa deliver kit to carry out one cycle of intracervical insemination straight to the user’s door.  She was previously in the Public Relations world, as Managing Director of Emberson Ventures and we talk about lessons healthtech startups can learn from the PR world.   We also talk about how she’s built Bea, crucial leadership advice she’s received from her mentors and big opportunities in the fertility market.   I hope you enjoy. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

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