Learning with Rishad

Owen Willis is the Founder and General Partner at Opal Ventures. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Osmosis and Program Partner at On Deck. We talk about: Introduction and childhood Gender and Race Teaching as a profession Can humility be taught How to hire and onboard How to build a team and scale a startup Solo vs team work Is early stage investing a game of picking or making winne...

It was amazing to have both Saumitra Thakur and Amit Mehta, MD join me for this webinar. Both have been an inspiration for myself in finding my path. I am incredibly thankful for: Saumitra for sharing his frameworks and schema's on venture capital and life. Amit for sharing his journey, learnings, mistakes and advice for breaking intro venture. We talk about: Different paths to running a venture c...

Steve is a physician and founder of SOAP health. Steve Charlap: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-charlap-md-mba-8911906/ SOAP Health: https://soap.health/ Rishad Usmani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishadusmani/ HealthTech Investors: https://www.healthtechinvestors.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Childhood 03:18 Thoughts on Man’s Search for Meaning 06:15 Structure vs intuition in picking colleagues 13:01...

In this webinar we start with a short presentation about due diligence followed by a fireside chat with two experienced healthcare venture capitalists. Key Takeaways: 1. Have a structured due diligence process. 2. Market risk: timing and a big market opportunity are both important.3. Technology risk: better, faster, cheaper. 4. Team risk: clear founder vision, unique insight, strong leadership and...

Leon is an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful human. After completing his PhD in Quantum Physics he went on found Oxitone Medical. He is also a Venture partner at Network VC. We talk about: Intuition vs structure in decision making The quantum world Backwards thinking for startups and in investing How to pick the best colleagues and employees

Shubhra Jain is the Head of Healthcare investments at Tarsadia Investments . She moved to US after completing her MBBS in India, to pursue a Masters in mechanical engineering at Stanford after which she completed her MBA from Wharton. Shubhra is an incredibly sharp, reflective and humble person. I had a lot of fun talking to her about: Due diligence process for startups How she picks VC funds and...

Shrawan is a physician, entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the managing director at Strategy Health and founding team member at PharmStars . I have known Shrawan for a few months now and find him to be deeply reflective, intelligent, curious and open minded. We talk about His childhood Decision making The existence of a soul What he looks for in founders Clinical trials And more! I am thankful...

Harvey is curious, kind and humble. He is a physician, healthcare consultant, and serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the healthcare industry. He is the author of ChatGPT Healthcare and Success Reinvention . We talk about His journey out of clinical medicine Entrepreneurship Perseverance Profitability in healthcare

David Zhou runs ops and deal flow at On Deck Angels. He is a mentor and advisor to several accelerators and incubators including Techstars, WEVE, City University of New York and Alchemist Accelerator. You can follow his thoughts on his newsletter, Cup of Zhou. He has an inquisitive, curious and intelligent mind. We talk about his childhood, deal flow, decision making, market risk and more! I hope...

Bharat is a co-founder and and principal at Amplitude Venture Capital. He has a PhD in Experimental Medicine and Masters of Science in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University.

Josh is the CEO and cofounder of SeamlessMD, a patient engagement platform which improves patient satisfaction while reducing hospital length of stay, readmissions, and costs.. They have raised over $7.5 million and are used by various health systems including Stanford Health. He is intelligent, humble and posses incredible grit. We talk about his childhood, his journey from an interest in coding...

Sam is a managing partner and co founder of Ambit Ventures (an early stage digital health venture firm), he is on the board of multiple startups. We are co-investors in SOAP health (early disease detection and diagnosis at the point of care). At the age of 53 he decided to pursue an MBA and transitioned to the private equity world before launching his fund with his cofounder. We talk about his chi...

I always have a fun time speaking with Jawad Ali and it’s always a pleasure. Jawad is a practicing general surgeon, founder of Vality (a physician led consulting firm specializing in digital surgery, patient engagement and surgical devices) and founder of Austin MedTech Connect (a private community connecting founders, clinicians, investors and healthcare stakeholders). We talk about success, surg...

Josh is the chief medical officer and cofounder of Figure 1, a social network and medical education platform for physicians. Figure 1 has raised $23.5 million and serves over 3 million users worldwide. Josh is also a practicing intensive care physician and the medical lead for medical assistance in dying at Scarborough General Hospital. We had a frank and honest discussion on the path from idea to...

ClinicUp was my previous startup which closed down in early 2022. It was a telemedicine company which served 1100 patients, we hired 10 physicians, we got a 6 million acquisition offer then got sued and lost it all.

Amit Mehta is a General Partner at BuildersVC and an interventional radiologist. BuilderVC is a $450 million venture capital firm which invests in seed to series B across multiple industries.

Raihan is a seasoned physician-entrepreneur. He is currently the Head of Medical Affairs at Gauranteed, a hospice startup. We talked about his journey from physician to entrepreneur, how to sell into health systems, the biggest problem in healthcare, death and identity.

Amit is a founding partner at Tau Venture, an $85 million fund which invests in early stage healthcare and enterprise software startups with an AI focus. 00:00 Introduction 02:50 Future of the fund 04:15 How are you thinking about allocation? 08:15 Time to exit 09:10 Secondary market 12:15 Healthcare and profits 15:25 Value based care 18:25 One piece of advice for your past self 23:00 What tailwin...

00:09 Introduction 01:15 Childhood/ is entrepreneurship innate? 04:15 Can you rely on intuition when investing in startups? 07:50 Different types of communication styles 12:30 Is talking fast okay? Or do you have to talk slowly and enunciate every word? 15:15 How to test/validate your intuition and be aware of your biases? 19:00 High school/ decision to become a physician 21:25 Medical school 23:0...

in this episode we talk about our investment thesis