What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
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 […]
Another year, another COVID-driven cancellation of the mayhem that is usually happening this week in San Francisco, generally known as the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. As I thought about the negatives (missing friends, missing opportune key meetings, missing major news events), and the positives (no $200 coffee klatches, no sweaty crowds, no foot pain and […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the guy that is currently viewed as the “capo di tutti capi” of scientists these days, turned 81 on December 24th. Happy Birthday Doctor Fauci. I can only imagine how astonished Fauci is to observe the growing general disdain for and/or repudiation of science this past two years. My recollection is that […]
I’ve been planning to write my annual holiday song parody for a few days, but I kept getting distracted. The most recent distraction was last night, when I was actively seeking out a distraction from the evening news, which should really be renamed “The 10 o’clock reasons to consider ending it all.” I found my […]
Few of you are likely old enough to remember “Who’s on First?,” the famous comedy bit from Abbott and Costello, but that’s a shame. If you haven’t heard it, you really should seek it out (listen here) because it’s one of the funniest comedy skits in history, at least in the view of me and […]
My lovely friend Susannah Fox thinks and writes extensively about peer-to-peer healthcare, as well as the plight of people with rare health conditions. In a recent article, she developed a framework for thinking about what conditions do and don’t get addressed to patients’ satisfaction (and her friends helped her render it as below): Susannah asked […]
This article ran last week in STAT News – delighted to pass it along to my fellow space buffs and thank you to STAT for telling the story of TRISH. By Asha Collins, Lisa Suennen and Armen R. Kherlopian SpaceX Inspiration4, funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, recently orbited the Earth for three days with an […]
For ages I’ve been saying that the term “digital health” should be retired – that it is a bit of a lazy term that evolved around 10-12 years ago at a time when technology and healthcare rarely appeared in the same zip code, much less in the same enterprise. At that time, it was surprising […]
You know how when you hear a song or a new word that you haven’t heard before, all of a sudden you start hearing it everywhere? Like you never heard anyone say the word “phygital” and all of a sudden it’s everywhere as if some sort of tipping point has been reached. Today was that […]
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard A few blogs back I wrote about valuations, how they are determined and how crazy they have been. In that piece, called Unraveling the Magical Mystery of Valuation Math, I talked about how valuations of private companies are derived and, […]
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.