E1022: One Drop CEO & Founder Jeff Dachis helps people with diabetes manage & improve their blood-sugar levels, shares insights on making data actionable, recent strategic partnership with Bayer, issues with US healthcare & potential life-expansion

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Jason Calacanis

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:47 Jason intros One Drop CEO Jeff Dachis
2:37 What was Jeff's original vision with One Drop? How has it evolved over time?
5:39 How did One Drop go from collecting data to making it actionable?
8:09 How important was getting the One Drop retail products into Apple stores?
9:46 Raising money as a hardware healthcare product
15:23 How did the Bayer partnership come about?
17:57 Have any major drug companies built software to manage what happens after taking medication?
21:19 What is the One Drop business today? How does coaching play into their product?
30:27 Who are One Drop's enterprise sales targets? Why don't more companies have health practitioners in-house?
36:37 Should employers be tied to healthcare?
40:04 What contributes most to the diabetes epidemic?
44:46 What are continuous glucose monitors? How do they help?
48:34 Why is insulin so expensive in the US compared to other countries?
51:47 Will we ever be able to know our blood sugar levels without intrusive hardware?
57:47 Will humans see average life-expansion into the 100's over the next few decades?
1:02:12 How gene-therapy becomes dangerous

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