What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
There’s a famous silly example about how commas “save lives” that goes like this: As a total word nerd, I am a big fan of punctuation and am also a bit of a comma addict. I favor dramatic punctuation, long pauses, even (gasp!) ellipses in my writing. That means that I occasionally don’t follow the […]
You know how, when companies send out press releases explaining why key executives are no longer in their jobs, the press releases always say the person “left to pursue other interests” instead of saying they were fired or laid off? Well, given what’s going on in the world of private equity/venture capital and AI, I […]
I was in Las Vegas recently and everybody everywhere was wearing Eagles concert t-shirts. The Eagles are having a moment, one might even call it a senior moment, at the Sphere in Vegas where they are playing an extended run. They are the talk of the town and apparently the show is amazing, even with […]
Proof Some people gonna call you up Tell you something that you already know Proof Sane people go crazy on you Say “No man that was not The deal we made I got to go, I got to go” Faith Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof is the bottom […]
This article originally appeared in Healthcare Musings. Recently I was chatting with an interesting person who works closely with young companies and who himself is considering whether he should further his own education in health tech. He asked me this question: What are the biggest challenges in the adoption of AI in healthcare and what […]
Lately, rather than talking about AI day and night, everyone is talking about two particular AI applications: ChatGPT and Dall.e-2. If you haven’t heard about them, here’s the basic pitch: ChatGPT is basically a super-charged chatbot. You talk to it, it tells you stuff. It has been “trained” with a billion bazillion pieces of info […]
I am writing this on a break from packing to attend the HLTH show. While I have made a few forays outside of my home and donned my bubble boy suit to interact with the occasional work colleague, this is the real deal. Starting tomorrow I’ll be wading into the throng of digital health has-beens, […]
You know how you accumulate stuff in your office until it feels like a time capsule? Well, that was my office until last week. I decided it was high time to dig a trench between the door and the desk and, in the process, to move whatever was in there taking up space to that […]
I had the pleasure of keynoting the recent UCLA Medtech Partnering Conference, where they asked me to speak on digital health,* and particularly its current state and where I see the opportunities and challenges over the next few years. I was happy to speak at this conference in part because it creates a forum to […]
You know how they say life imitates art and, also that art imitates life? Well, I have recently seen a great example of both: the Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” demonstrates this concept to perfection. For those who haven’t seen the movie, it’s about what might happen if a giant asteroid were headed towards the […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.