What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Yes, I love the movies, which is why I throw in an occasional movie review in here now and then. Aside from comedy, my favorite thing to see is documentaries about extraordinary people and/or events. It’s similar to what I like to read: non-fiction stories that are stranger or more fantastical than what one might […]
With confidence he attributes to his free-range childhood, Chris Gibson has followed his instincts and his heart, stepping away from the MD/PhD program in which he’s enrolled to co-found and lead Recursion Pharmaceuticals, one of the buzziest companies bringing AI to drug development. In mid-July, Recursion closed a $121M Series C, bringing their valuation ever […]
We just finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. landing on the moon, only to have the story marred by the news that astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, likely died from what at least looks to be major medical errors in his treatment. What a tragic end to […]
Sumit Nagpal was born to a pair of healthcare entrepreneurs and raised in Kashmir, India. When he was 13, he came to the United States where he saw diversity for the first time. Sumit followed his parents into the Ivy League, starting at Brown, but left to follow his muse, Steve Jobs, at NeXT, where […]
A computational biologist by training, Imran Haque has managed to achieve the near-impossible: embracing the promise of data science in medicine while retaining his critical faculties. He may well be just the sort of innovator required at the intersection of medicine and big data. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Imran says he grew […]
Yesterday on Twitter I not only saw, but got challenged to respond to Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups, which ran in 2012 in his column in Entrepreneur and got re-circulated yesterday. I have to say I agree with pretty much all of his rules as it applies to all startups, regardless of industry, with […]
By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen I’ve lived long enough to have learned The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned But that won’t happen to us Cause it’s always been a matter of trust -A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel If you’re in health care and you […]
When Zoe Barry was a kid, she had two things she wanted to be when she grew up, either a veterinarian or “someone who writes checks.” She gave the first a shot and ended up settling on the second. Today she is CEO of ZappRx and a shining example of how drive and intellect can […]
While talking to a fellow podcaster/healthcare innovation advocate last week, I had a sudden visual that came to my head which seemed to me a great metaphor for what happens to new ideas (aka “innovations”) brought to the healthcare system: a spaghetti colander. Here we are, we entrepreneurs, idea people, purveyors of the new/better/different, cooking […]
In graduate school, Karen Hong’s dream of becoming a biologist crashed into the inconvenient reality that she couldn’t stand working in the lab. Undaunted, Karen, pivoted into venture capital, and hasn’t looked back. As befits a future geneticist, Karen chose her own genes extremely wisely: her dad was a legendary wunderkind in Taiwan who had […]
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.