Recode Decode: Othman Laraki, CEO, Color

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Color Genomics co-founder and CEO Othman Laraki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why we're on the verge of a healthcare revolution. Laraki, whose company tests buyers' genes for certain hereditary cancers, says the future of medicine will be defined by our ability to read data from our bodies. While most of that data used to be recorded on paper and stored at hospitals, now it's largely being generated and stored on our smartphones; he predicts that to achieve truly personalized medicine, we will need artificially intelligenct software that can comb this data, changing the role of doctors in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by GoCD, an on-premise open-source, continuous delivery server by ThoughtWorks.
0:08.1	GoCD gives you complete control of invisibility and shared deployments across multiple teams.
0:12.8	To learn more about GoCD, visit Go.CD slash Recode for a free download.
0:20.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by Digital Media.
0:27.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:30.0	You may know me as the world's biggest fan of the movie Gatica, but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode,
0:36.0	a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:41.0	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode, and while you're there, leave us a review.
0:47.0	Today in the red chair is Othman Luraki, the president of Color Genomics.
0:52.0	Othman co-founded Color in March 2013, coming off of more than three years as Vice President of Product at Twitter.
0:59.0	Color analyzes the genes of its users to see if they're at risk for certain hereditary cancers.
1:05.0	We're going to talk about the future of health, tech, and much more.
1:08.0	Othman, welcome to Recode Decode.
1:10.0	Thank you for having me.
1:11.0	So there's so much to talk about.
1:13.0	I just recently did a podcast with Vic and Dottra, who's doing EEGs on little small devices,
1:18.0	and just recently got money from the Mayo Clinic, and I recently interviewed Ann Wajiski from 23 and me,
1:24.0	one of the original genomics companies.
1:26.0	So why don't you give us a little background of how you got to this first so people can understand who you are,
1:30.0	because coming as VP of Product at Twitter is not really where.
1:33.0	It's not quite the traditional background for health.
1:36.0	Yeah.
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