E1027: Orreco CEO & Founder Dr. Brian Moore built a platform that optimizes performance of elite athletes, shares cutting-edge benefits of blood sampling, biomarkers, inflammation reduction, glucose monitoring & more!

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

0:46 Jason intros Dr. Brian Moore
3:39 What does Orreco do and how do they help elite athletes?
4:46 Do they sample blood?
6:33 What teams do they work with?
7:50 What is a bio-marker?
9:05 Why has inflammation monitoring become so popular?
15:01 Brian demos the Orreco app
22:56 What are the top reasons for elite athletes to use Orreco?
28:06 How did Brian get into this business?
30:34 How does blood differ in elite athletes? Is it regional?
36:25 What does Orreco have the biggest impact on?
43:40 What kinds of performance optimization should or shouldn't be legal in pro sports
51:12 How have they monitored machine learning?
56:47 Importance of glucose monitoring
59:15 Correlation in NBA between minutes per game and years played?
1:01:29 Taking a personal loan out to fund Orreco in the early days
1:15:39 Marc Andreessen asks Jason a question

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0:45.0	slash twist. Hey everybody welcome to another episode of this week in
0:48.4	startups if you follow me on the Twitter you know I got knocked on my
0:51.6	ass back in December over the break at some terrible on the up over three weeks of fighting this thing the worst I've ever had in my life I had to
1:04.4	get IVs I didn't have to get them I guess I elected to get them and I tweeted it to get
1:09.7	a little sympathy and to flex that I was getting IVs at home, okay boomer.
1:14.0	And a fan of the podcast reached out, a fan of the pod Brian Moore,
1:18.8	and he is the CEO of founder of Orico, not Oracle,ico, O-R-E-C-O-com.
1:27.0	And he said, hey, I'm a fan of the pod.
1:29.5	I was seeing that you're sick.
1:31.5	That's terrible.
1:33.2	I run a blood company, a science company.
1:36.6	I work with some of your friends in the NBA and other teams.
1:41.1	And hey, here's some things to help you recover and maybe avoid getting sick to begin with and I
1:46.7	clicked on the link you know he didn't ask to be on the pod or wasn't selling anything
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