Healthcare: Silicon Valley Wants to Disrupt Your Genes
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The cost of gene sequencing is falling rapidly, and uses for this data are springing up left and right. Simon Erickson calls in from South by Southwest to chat with Kristine about healthcare's role at the traditionally tech-focused conference.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is March 14th and this is the health care edition of the show. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Christine Haragis and we're continuing our South by Southwest coverage. |
| 0:14.0 | The Motley Fool's Simon Ericsson is calling in from Texas so we can talk about what he saw in Austin as it relates to health care. |
| 0:20.0 | Simon, thank you for joining me. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey Christine, it's great to be here and glad to be calling me from Austin, one of the finest cities in the United States. |
| 0:27.5 | You know, I've never been, but I've heard amazing things. |
| 0:30.1 | I did live here, so I might be biased biased but I still stand by the statement. |
| 0:33.6 | Well someday I hope to be able to go check it out. |
| 0:36.8 | Before we get started with the show Simon do you know what holiday it is today? |
| 0:40.8 | What holiday? No I do not. I believe it's 3.14 though. Does that make it pie day? |
| 0:45.0 | That does make it pie day. |
| 0:47.0 | So rapid fire, buy, sell, or hold, pecan pie. |
| 0:52.0 | Ooh, pecan, I'm going to go on a hold. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, Cherry Pie. |
| 0:57.0 | Sell. |
| 0:58.0 | And apple pie? |
| 0:59.0 | Hold. |
| 1:00.0 | What about American Pie, the 1971 Don McLean hit? |
| 1:05.0 | 100% a buy on that one. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay, I had to keep going until we got some sort of buy. |
| 1:10.0 | So getting down to business, it seems to me that every year, |
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