Engineering an AI-powered doctor’s office with Forward CEO Adrian Aoun | E1848
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Today’s show:
Forward CEO Adrian Aoun joins Jason to discuss how his startup creating the first AI doctor's office (13:55)! The two dive into how Forward's AI technology operates (15:55), the challenges with modern healthcare (9:52), and how Forward plans to revolutionize the healthcare service (40:36).
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(0:00) Forward CEO Adrian Aoun joins Jason.
(1:46) VC in the Middle East and the lack of diligence in the last boom and bust cycle
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(9:52) Challenges in healthcare and Adrian’s journey to Forward
(13:55) The Forward “Care Pod”, an AI-powered doctor's office providing scans, monitoring, blood tests and more
(15:55) Adrian demos Forward’s product
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(24:50) Forward’s business model and target customer
(28:08) Figuring out how to make healthcare scalable
(30:29) Reactions to the Care Pod and thoughts on wearables
(34:51) The role of a doctor in Forward’s ecosystem
(37:28) Forward’s rollout strategy
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(40:36) AI’s role in Forward’s technology
(43:27) The size of the company and plans for expansion
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| 0:00.0 | I used to think that I was a big thinker and I don't think I was a big thinker until I really worked for Larry. |
| 0:06.2 | I'll tell you, Larry told me something once, he's like, you know, and I'm going to paraphrase, but he's like, it's just as hard to work on easy things as it is to work on hard things. |
| 0:15.8 | He's like, pretend you want to build the world's best spoon. |
| 0:18.1 | What are you going to do? |
| 0:19.1 | You're going to raise a couple million bucks, get 20 people in a room, work on it, come out with a |
| 0:22.0 | product a year later. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's say you want to, I don't know, go to Mars, you're going to get, raise a couple |
| 0:26.0 | million bucks, you know, get 20 people come out with a product a year later. |
| 0:29.7 | Like at some point you realize like your first steps are always kind of the same you might |
| 0:33.4 | as well work on something that's enormous right like at least like look what |
| 0:37.4 | we're working on it for it's really damn hard like I don't have any pretense |
| 0:41.3 | about it like we know that our probability of getting health care |
| 0:44.4 | to a billion people is a rounding error to zero. |
| 0:46.6 | But you know what, man, we get to wake up every day |
| 0:48.6 | and be like, yeah, but you know what, if it works, |
| 0:51.4 | like look at the world we live in yeah and to me that's the |
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| 1:06.0 | Go to startups. |
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