Summary
In this fireside chat, a16z General Partner Julie Yoo makes the case that healthcare's structural challenges, its historically low technology adoption, its labor constraints, its need for deep domain expertise, are precisely what make it the most fertile ground for AI. She and the StartUp Health community discuss:
🏗️ Why the compound business model is now the winning playbook, and why Yoo herself had to be proved wrong about it
📈 What the numbers actually show about health tech companies keeping pace with the fastest growers in tech
💡 The concept of infinite healthcare, what it means, why it's controversial, and why Yoo thinks the critics are missing the point
🎯 What investors are really looking for at the Series A when everyone shows up with the same ARR and the same product
🚀 Why this is the best moment in history to be building in health tech
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