#27 Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer talks about the Dexcom/Google collaboration, pump integration, Android and iOS/CGM in the Cloud issues, Medicare, Medicaid, Adhesive concerns.... Basically EVERYTHING diabetes and CGM related that you want to know about!
If you are a continous glucose monitor user or considering becoming one - do not miss this episode of the podcast.
I think you'll find this episode of the Juicebox Podcast a CGM users dream come true. Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer was an open book who dished about things that I thought for sure he'd decline to speak about. Huge thanks to Kevin for his time and candor!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I woke up the other morning to a news alert that Dexcom and Google had entered into some |
| 0:06.2 | sort of a business relationship. |
| 0:09.0 | And I clicked through a couple of links and found the press release from Dexcom where they were saying |
| 0:15.0 | things that I was excited about things like this partnership has the potential to change the face of diabetes technology forever. |
| 0:24.4 | And working together, we believe we can introduce products that will move us beyond our core |
| 0:28.9 | type 1 business to become the standard of care for all people living in type 1 diabetes. |
| 0:33.0 | Just talking about bandage size sensors. |
| 0:38.0 | And things that I wasn't sure how possible those things were in a short amount of time, but apparently |
| 0:48.7 | the idea of taking Google's Life Sciences department and meowing it together with Dexcom's ability to, I think, |
| 0:59.4 | be the industry leader in glucose sensing technology. You put these two things |
| 1:04.8 | together and all of a sudden I'm really excited. So I put some quotes from |
| 1:12.3 | the press release and links to the press release on my blog at |
| 1:15.9 | Ardens Day.com and it quickly becomes one of the most popular blog posts I've |
| 1:21.9 | had in quite some time. So that gets me thinking and I reach |
| 1:27.0 | out to Dexcom and ask if I can interview somebody at the company about the |
| 1:32.1 | announcement and they don't just give me |
| 1:34.8 | somebody to enter to talk to, they give me the CEO Kevin Sayer and said, Kevin would love to talk |
| 1:41.0 | to you. |
| 1:42.0 | And I have to admit, like when I first got the email back, |
| 1:45.1 | I thought, oh, this is going to be probably a guarded conversation. |
| 1:47.9 | You know, we like to keep things loose on the podcast |
| 1:50.4 | and real conversational. |
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