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🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Dr. Don Brown’s first company was acquired by EDS in 1986. He founded Software Artistry in 1988 which became the first software company in Indiana to IPO. Don then founded and served as CEO of Interactive Intelligence which went public in 1999 and was acquired in 2016 for $1.4 billion. He started LifeOmic in late 2016. Don received a BS in physics, a MS in computer science, and an MD from Indiana University. He also received a MS in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University in 2017.
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0:00.0 | Don's been through it all. |
0:00.7 | Went through 99, 19 million bucks in revenue, went public. |
0:03.5 | Then it got just unrealistic and just fantasy land. |
0:06.9 | He held on, though, to the stock, was acquisitive in terms of buying up distribution partners, |
0:11.2 | and then ultimately exited. |
0:12.6 | It took that company who was taken private for about $1.4 billion. |
0:15.3 | He didn't even take a break day after launches a company called Life. |
0:18.3 | Why? |
0:18.8 | Because he's passionate about the space convergence of health care plus Cal Computing, and really what he calls, |
0:23.5 | and I think the industry calls prescriptive health, as they look to scale, sorry, precision health |
0:27.3 | as they look to scale, just signed a big contract with Indiana University as kind of their first |
0:31.7 | paid pilot. Hello, everybody. My guest today is Don Brown. His first company was acquired |
0:37.3 | by EDS in 1986. |
0:39.2 | He founded software artistry in 1988, which became the first software company in Indiana to IPO. |
0:45.3 | He then founded and served as CEO of Interactive Intelligence, which went public in 99, and it was |
0:49.4 | acquired in 2016 for $1.4 billion. He then started Lifelmic in late 2016. He received a BS in physics and |
0:56.0 | MS in computer science and an MD from Indiana University, also received an MSN biotechnology from |
1:01.4 | John Hopkins University in 2017. Don, are you ready to take us to the top? |
1:06.2 | Yeah, you bet. All right, a lot of history here. You've seen patterns, you've seen trends, |
1:10.0 | you've done a lot here. Talk to me about Lifeel make. What's the company do? And what's your revenue model? How do you make |
1:14.2 | money? Well, we're still trying to figure out the revenue model. We're more concerned right now about |
1:20.5 | building a cloud-based platform for precision medicine. We all know that in order to treat people better, |
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