Ryan McQuaid, PlushCare - If You Look At Virtual Visits Last Year, They’re Only 1-2% Of All Addressable Visits | #237

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In episode 237 we welcome our guest, Ryan McQuaid, co-founder and CEO of PlushCare. In today’s episode, we’re getting into a hot topic in this pandemic environment, telehealth. We start by hearing the origin story behind PlushCare as Ryan shares his personal experience of receiving fully digital support and medical care from a friend who was a Stanford physician, identifying that 1% of Americans can afford the price-tag of a concierge doctor, and pursuing the opportunity to democratize the model, making it widely available to all. We walk through the experience PlushCare provides patients and physicians, and the emphasis on investing a lot on the physician side of the business. We cover the experience of navigating COVID as a telehealth provider, and the need to increase physician capacity 4X! We get into the state of the industry, and our Ryan’s thoughts about this being the future of patient-physician relationships, and the vision for the company going forward. All this and more in episode 237 with Ryan McQuaid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mebb Faver Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Met Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.3	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambry's funds on this podcast.
0:27.2	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion
0:31.1	of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.4	For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.
0:35.6	Hey podcast listener is another awesome and timely show for you today. Our guest is
0:44.0	co-founder and CEO of Plushcare, a startup offering personalized high quality
0:49.3	health care from top US medical doctors from the ease of a smartphone.
0:54.2	In today's episode, we're getting into a hot topic
0:56.4	in this pandemic environment, telehealth.
0:59.4	We start by hearing the origin story
1:01.2	behind Plus Care and the agony and
1:02.8	ecstasy of being a startup entrepreneur.
1:05.8	Our guest shares his personal experience
1:07.6	of receiving fully digital support in medical care
1:09.9	from a friend who is a Stanford doc.
1:12.4	And the realization that only 1% of Americans can afford the price tag of a concierge doctor
1:16.9	and pursuing the opportunity to democratize the model making it widely available to all.
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