Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
I'd encourage more young people to apply their talents beyond finance and consulting and to think about reshaping how medicines are brought to market and how the business is run.
Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.
I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
Giving good medical care to people who need it is not a good way to make a profit. Insurance companies make their money by creaming the market.
There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.
How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.
Rehabs have become a big business in this country. There are good ones and not-good ones, just like anything else.
We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.
We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.
