Dan Roark is a serial entrepreneur, CEO, and active angel investor with decades of experience building, scaling, and leading technology companies across healthcare, life sciences, and industrial automation.In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Dan shares his journey to becoming CEO of Gestalt Diagnostics, a digital pathology and AI diagnostics company improving cancer detection and clinical workflows. We dive deep into what it takes to commercialize complex technology, scale globally, and lead teams across engineering, business operations, and market development.Dan brings a rare perspective shaped by work on innovations tied to the Human Genome Project, high throughput drug screening, diagnostics biomarker testing, and population genomics. This conversation covers real world leadership lessons, hard earned entrepreneurial insights, and what founders need to know when building in regulated and high stakes industries like healthcare.If you are interested in startups, health tech, AI in diagnostics, entrepreneurship, or scaling technology companies, this episode is a must watch.What you will learn in this episode:• Dan Roark’s path from entrepreneur to CEO of Gestalt Diagnostics• How digital pathology and AI are changing cancer diagnostics• What it really takes to commercialize deep tech in healthcare• Leadership lessons from scaling companies globally• The biggest mistakes founders make when growing too fast• Advice for entrepreneurs building in regulated industriesSubscribe for weekly conversations with founders, CEOs, and investors building the next generation of technology companies.Dan Roark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-roark-665723/FUEL Coworking: https://fuelcoworking.com/#hubCowles Ventures: https://www.cowlesventures.com/