Using Software as a Drug: An Introduction to All Things Digital Therapeutics (DTx), with Danny Kim, Head of Corporate Development @ WELT

Today, we have part two of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT!

WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatment of diseases with a high unmet medical need.

In the past, Danny served as the Director of Business Development at Soundable Health, VP atContrary Capital, Corporate Development Analyst with Pear Therapeutics as an operator atPillPack (PillPack’s biggest fanboy—Danny’s unofficial title at the company); the company was acquired by Amazon for $1B during his stay.

What you will learn about today:

1.) What are digital therapeutics?

2.) How do you prove efficacy for a digital therapeutic?

3.) How is data driving the world of healthcare? Who should be in charge of that data?

4.) How will people manage their healthcare data in the future?

5.) What does corporate development look like at a digital therapeutics company?

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The Importance of Being an Operator & Patient-Centric Design: A Pill-Pack Case Study with Danny Kim, Head of Corp Dev @ WELT

Today, we have part one of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT. WELT creates “Personalized digital therapeutics for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs.” WELT is currently focused on creating therapeutics for substance abuse disorders (SUD), alcohol use disorder (AUD), and insomnia.

This week’s episode will be slightly different from our typical interview structure. Next week’s episode will be more traditional, where we deep dive into Danny’s background and his work at WELT.

What you will learn about today

1.) How working directly under TJ Parker (CEO & Co-founder of Pill Pack, acq. By Amazon) fundamentally changed how Danny approaches problems and entrepreneurship.
2.) How do you balance the different needs of the multiple stakeholders (patients, health insurance, provider, pharmaceutical companies) in the therapeutics space?
3.) Why Amazon acquiring Pill Pack makes so much sense

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Digital Health News: The Prince and the Digital Health Startup, plus Digital Health’s $7.1 Billion Fundraising Glow-Up.

New podcast format alert!

Iman and I are trying something new this week. In this episode, we will be discussing some of the most recent and interesting news in the digital health space!

In today’s episode, we talk about:

• Prince Harry’s new job as an Executive at a Digital Health Company
• The $7.1 Billion that digital health companies raised in Q1 2021
• How only 14% of that 2019 funding went to companies that were led by women

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“With Great Personal Data, Comes Great Responsibility”: Managing Your Personal Data in a World with Vaccine Passports, with David Lucatch, CEO of KABN Network

David Lucatch is theCEO, President & Chair of the Corporation at Liquid Avatar Technologies. Hehasspent over35 years as a serial entrepreneur in the international marketingarena and over 25 years of that developing technologies and taking them to market.Today, David’s focus is set squarely on Liquid Avatar (formerly The KABN Network), as its Chair, and its mission to empower individuals, through Self Sovereign Identity, to manage, control, and profit from the use of their identity and related personal data.

Topics We Discuss in Our Interview:

• Why will identity services be so important during and post-COVID?
• How are you partnering with companies to create a “digital passport” to track proof of COVID vaccinations and test results?
• How will you go about creating this “digital passport”?
• How will people get back to normal in a post-vaccine world?
• Why continue building in the technology space? What keeps the passion alive?
• Where do you see health and technology intersecting in the next 5 years?

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Burnout, Leadership, and Toxic Work Cultures with Hamza Khan, Managing Director of Student Life Network

Today’s episode is going to be slightly different from our previous episodes. Rather than focus explicitly on a company tackling a problem in the digital health space we have a guest whose work is focused on tackling a problem that we all face at one point in our careers, burnout.

Hamza Khan is a multi-award winning marketer & entrepreneur. He’s the Managing Director of Student Life Network, Canada’s most comprehensive resource hub dedicated to helping and empowering millions of students across the country. He co-founded both Splash Effect, a boutique marketing & creative agency, as well as SkillsCamp, a soft skills training company. He is the author of an Amazon bestselling book, “The Burnout Gamble

Topics we cover in today’s episode:

• How Student Life Network is trying to fill the community void that COVID has created for students
• The Paradox of Increased Awareness of Burnout but a lack of decrease in Burnout
• How Professional Development goes beyond signing up your employees for online courses and training
• How does Kawhi Leonard’s time at the Toronto Raptors relate to corporate team development?
• What are some behaviors that work leaders might be doing that are contributing to a toxic work environment?

Building Companies with a Product Manager Mindset and Health, E-commerce, and Entrepreneurship in Dubai, with Tony Pagliocco, Fmr. CPO of Hello Chef

Today’s special guest is Tony Pagliocco, the Former Head of Product for Hello Chef. Tony formally served as a Product Manager for Wizards of the Coast and as Head of Product for the Analytics division at Boeing.

Hello Chef is a Dubai-based meal-kit service, delivering chef-curated recipes and pre-portioned, fresh ingredients to thousands of customers across the UAE every week. Using analytics on customers, Tony talks about the importance of data to inform product decisions and deliver value. It’s what led to the success of companies where he’s led the product roadmap, vision and strategy, and prioritizes that mindset in building a high value company. An evangelist of a product-manager approach to startups, Tony frequently speaks on product management at organizations such as Product School and Wonsulting, geared to bring more bright talent into the tech industry.

Questions we answer in this episode!

• What does the start-up ecosystem look like in the United Arab Emirates? How has it grown?
  
• What has it been like working in a different country outside the US?
  
• How does food and nutrition play a part in the world of digital health?
  
• How do you create experiences that excite and delight your customers?
  

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