I don't care how smart you are, okay? You cannot navigate yourself through American

health care. My dad had saved $50,000 which was all the money he had in the world

to send us to grad school and we're, we have this idea to start the company and we need about

$50,000. So could we have it? And he's like, heck no. And frankly, when you think about

health care, I don't think we have a minute to waste.

So part of this is that if you actually produce a net better service,

it doesn't mean that you're going to get paid for it.

That was actually the really sort of incredibly painful lesson we

weren't from the first time that we built Athena. They were really built to

react to catastrophe. So they're great at acute care when the fit hits the sham, right?

They're massively under-invested in, under-supported in preventing catastrophe.

So why is that a tech problem? Like where does tech fit into this? At A16Z's recent LP Summit,

we brought together hundreds of our limited partners

and portfolio founders back together again in Las Vegas.

The event was truly overflowing with stories of how

founders are challenging the status quo and harnessing technology to make the

world a better place. However, there are two industries where there is no question that

lives are literally on the line, public safety and health care. Yet these are also

two arenas for technological innovation that despite being so critical

are also often equally misunderstood.

And that is why we've chosen to open up two of the summit sessions to the public to really show what a better version of the future can look like.

Even in industries where technology is not always celebrated.

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