Akili's Eddie Martucci: "The world's first prescription video game"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eddie Martucci, co-founder and chief executive of Akili Interactive, to talk about making the first prescription video game (3:40), the original pitch (6:10), sweeping the floors of his parents’ pharmacy (13:20), how he landed on video games as medicine (16:40), why ADHD is more present that it used to be (19:00), targeting a “weak link” in the brain (24:00), how the game algorithmically hones it treatment to each player (27:55), targeting conditions like depression and MS (29:40), getting insurance and health systems to pay for it (33:00), looking abroad (43:30), and running a public company (46:40).

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0:00.0	Hey guys, before we get to today's show, just a quick programming note. This is the last
0:06.0	episode of 2022. I'll be taking the next couple weeks off to kind of recharge, hang out with
0:11.3	kids, eat too much food, open some presents, etc. Or actually watch my kids open some presents.
0:17.5	But I digress. But I want to take a moment to thank you for listening for all the ratings and reviews, for the downloads.
0:24.1	You know, I've been doing this pod for over five years now.
0:27.0	And we are rapidly closing in on 300 episodes, which is pretty amazing given that we started this as a bit of an experiment.
0:35.0	So thank you all for listening.
0:36.9	I really appreciate it.
0:37.9	And as I hope you can tell, I really enjoy doing it.
0:40.4	Also wanted to give a big shout out to producer Daisy for making sure the pods sound good and show up on time.
0:48.0	Week in, week out.
0:48.8	She is a true pro.
0:50.2	And you are all the beneficiaries.
0:52.9	So thank you, Daisy.
0:54.9	Anyhow, I hope you managed to get to get some rest and relaxation in over the holidays.
0:59.6	The pod will be back in the first week of Jan.
1:03.8	But now let's get to the last show of 2022.
1:08.3	Here it is.
1:09.7	Yo, technology. What is it all about?
1:14.0	The world is now competing for our brain power in a really intense way.
1:20.2	Social media is a horrible example and instantiation of that.
1:24.1	So I think we're basically just in like a cognitive overload in society. So to me, it
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