Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

I'm your host, Christine Harjus.

This health care episode is being released on March 22nd, and it features an interview that I recorded on March 15th with Matt Wallach, the co-founder and

president of one of my favorite health care companies Viva Systems.

Hope you enjoy it.

Hi Matt, thanks so much for coming on to industry focus today. Let's kick off with some

backgrounds. Talk to me about how Viva was created and what the business does.

Sure, thanks Christine for having me on. So it's a little bit of an unusual recipe to start a company.

Peter Gassner and I had never met and we lived 3,000 miles away.

And so we got together because there was a shared idea that

cloud computing was going to go in the same direction that client server and

mainframe had before and that is that as it gets more and more mature it gets more

and more verticalized, more specific to specific industry segments.

So no one had done that in the cloud yet at that time.

So that was the original idea and Peter and I was a

combination of Peter's deep expertise in Silicon Valley. He is really one of the

best product guys in Silicon Valley and has attracted a great group of product people

around there and then I had a long background in life sciences kind of

knowing what life sciences companies look for in technology,

the types of solutions that they need,

the types of people that would be innovative

and would potentially be an early adopter.

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