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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

The Future of Healthcare: Personalization and AI (with ZOE’s Jonathan Wolf)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

EPIIPLUS 1 Ltd / Azeem Azhar

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51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Nutritional science has long been one-size-fits-all. Advice on a healthier diet has long been generic, failing to consider the huge variance of our bodies. ZOE is trying to change that by combining new research on our microbiomes with AI and machine learning. The healthtech startup offers dietary advice tailored to an individual’s microbiome – the unique makeup of microorganisms present in our gut – to change the way we eat for the better.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.

0:06.0

The A16Z podcast is an exception.

0:09.0

It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars,

0:14.0

even electric boats, eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast.

0:23.0

HBR presents.

0:35.0

Welcome to the exponential view podcast with me, Azim Azar, as an entrepreneur, investor and analyst.

0:41.0

I've been an insider in the technology industry for more than 20 years.

0:46.0

During that time, I've watched exponentially developing technologies change our economies and much more besides.

0:52.0

And there is much, much more change to come.

0:55.0

Now, I wrote about these dynamics in my book, the exponential age.

0:59.0

And I dig into them every week in my newsletter, exponential view, and speak to the people making it happen right here on this podcast.

1:07.0

So I've been really interested in what has been going on in the intersection between breakthroughs in biology and medical research

1:16.0

and also in fields of data science and machine learning for quite a while.

1:22.0

Researchers and entrepreneurs are making quite impressive progress.

1:27.0

One area that's particularly close to home is tackling the questions around human nutrition.

1:33.0

What makes for good food for each of us?

1:36.0

And today's guest is answering that question and he's doing so by bringing together new research in medicine and biology and nutrition

1:45.0

as well as novel techniques in data science and machine learning, wearable technologies and AI.

1:52.0

Jonathan Wolf is a CEO and co-founder of Zoe, a personalized nutrition company that uses some of these state-of-the-art techniques to offer targeted health advice to its customers.

2:03.0

One of the most impressive things about Zoe is the speed and scale of its studies.

2:08.0

Jonathan's background is in high growth consumer tech companies like Yahoo and Criteo.

2:13.0

And that knows for growth has been put to good use at Zoe, which looks to work on a much quicker timescale than scientific research has been used to.

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