Welcome to the After-On podcast. I'm your host, Rob Reed.

And this is a series of conversations with thinkers, founders, and scientists.

Take a little time and stretch out because these talks are unhurry and meant to bring you

to a top percentile understanding of something important.

Also, whether you're ready to start up score ideas, a techie or a lit major, take your time,

engage your mind, and you'll be glad you did it.

Especially this week when we'll be talking to...

Physician Scientist, entrepreneur, and healthcare futurist, Daniel Kraft.

I don't know anyone with a broader purview on the crazy range of medical developments that

are now vying to extend or radically improve our lives.

I've known Daniel socially and professionally for years.

He founded and runs the annual Exponential Medicine Conference, which is one of the largest

truly cross-disciplinary gatherings of life science, researchers, and innovators in the world.

And he also founded and runs the Medical Faculty at Singularity University,

a wonderfully unique academic institution that could only have a risen from the fertile soil

of Silicon Valley.

We actually conducted our interview at Singularity University and we'll be talking

quite a bit about that institution during the interview.

When Daniel does a presentation, he's the opposite of that speaker we've all seen who has to

do everything possible to pad their words and their slides to fill up their time slot.

With Daniel, I always feel like there's an entire presentation lurking behind each and

every slide that he puts up on the screen.

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