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On the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast, Jonathan Pfaffenrot creates deep dives with some of the brightest minds on nerdy topics around entrepreneurship while geeking out on digital health, biohacking and the never ending quest of human self-optimization and balance. Sample conversations include inventors, billionaires, founders, athletes and researchers.
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Corbin Petro who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health.
The company has raised $82m to date and is building a hybrid care model for mental health and substance use disorder. Together with Corbin we tackled the founding story behind the company and the learnings she took from her past experience in healthcare.
Among many exciting topics we cover the go-to-market strategy of Eleanor and dive deeper into the reasons of why it is challenging to get a healthcare venture right.
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Matteo Franceschetti the CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep.
The team at Eight Sleep managed to raise about $160m from leading funds such as Khosla Ventures, SoftBank or General Catalyst but also Angels such as Kevin Hart.
Eight Sleep is transforming the sleeping experience with their products by capturing incredible data on a person's health and providing the right sleeping temperature through their hydro-powered cooling technology.
Together with Matteo we are talking about his entrepreneurial journey and the journey of building Eight Sleep. We touch upon the challenges of building hardware products as well as some fundraising stories.
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
On this epsiode we are chatting with Andrew Herr who took his expertise from optimizing Nacy SEALs and pro-sports teams to build a scalable product through his venture Fount.
Together with Andrew we are talking about the founding story of Fount and talk about the product they are building with his team and how they strive to build digital product experiences.
We also dive into the data set they are building up taking a deep dive into the different health variables they are tracking and the reasoning behind the types of biomarkers and the frequency they collect.
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Together with Mette Dhyrberg Co-Founder & CEO of health tech company Mymee.
The company has developed a digital approach to managing autoimmune diseases, which combines a mobile app, data analytics and certified health coaches to identify triggers for disease symptoms.
We are diving into the approach Mette has taken together with her Co-Founder in building within the health space.
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting the CEO & Co-Founder of Nightingale Health, the Finnish company behind the ground-breaking blood testing technology.
Together with Teemu we are tackling the founding story of the company and what it means to move from being a biotech company to a digital health company. We also dive deeper into the reasoning behind different market entry strategies and why Nightingale went public in Finnland.
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Stefan is the Co-Founder and CEO of FLOWBIO, a start-up focused on building the first real sweat sensor.
Together we are diving into Stefan's founder story and the vision for FLOWBIO and how they plan to position themselves within the wearable market.
Stefan is giving us an insight into the early days of forming the company and how his Co-Founder and CTO tackled the hardware challenge for developing a proper sweat sensor.
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Joseph is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard University. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of npj Digital Medicine one of the most relevant academic journals for publications at the intersection of innovation and digital health. Beyond that Joseph has been working and adivsing different healthtech ventures over the past years.
Together with Joseph we dove into the status-quo for the most relevant digital health applications and discussed opportunities and challenges.
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Excited to host Rachel Soper Sanders who is teh Co-Founder and CEO of Rootine a health and wellness company focused on optimizing cellular nutrition through better data science and personalized health solutions to help people perform at their best everyday.
Rachel started Rootine shortly after finishing her MBA at Harvard and meeting her Co-Founder.
Together we are covering different topics around building ventures for personalized health and the opportunities and benefits related to optimizing a persons nutrient levels.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
For this episode on the SCR Podcast we hosted David Mehlman founder of Ommyx.
Together with his team they are working on decoding personal health data across different tracking devices to determine what works best on an individual level.
David gives us an insight on his perspective for the connected health segment and the opportunities and challenges he sees. We are talking about different approaches and the go-to-market strategies for personalized health ventures.
Due to the recent turn in sentiment within the VC and start-up world we also touched upon the status-quo of the market and what it means for start-ups raising capital.
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Phil Southerland is the CEO and Co-Founder of Supersapiens.
In 2019, Supersapiens approached Abbott about bringing their technology to the athletic community, and a partnership was soon established.
In September 2020, Abbott announced that its Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor had achieved a CE Mark. It is the first CGM approved for non-diabetic use in the world.
By combining Abbott's proven track record in glucose sensing technology along with Supersapiens' app and personalized analytics, athletes are able to better understand the correlation between their glucose levels and their athletic performance.