Today, I'm sharing three courses of conversation and food with my friend Will Manidis. Will was the founder and CEO of ScienceIO, a venture-backed startup building foundational AI models targeted at the healthcare industry. Earlier this year, ScienceIO was acquired for $140M by Veradigm, the publicly traded company focused on healthcare data and technology.

We'll talk through his unique market insights (opportunities for startups in healthtech, AI and healthcare), mutual founder therapy (how founders lose their individual deep expertise during their startup journey), and his strengths and weaknesses (fueled by conversations I had with his founder friends).

We also talk about the bad behavior of venture capital, trends in the industry more broadly, his thoughts on Palantir, and more. This is Three Course Founders, Episode 002: Healthtech Fever Dream, with Will Manidis of ScienceIO.

My mission with this show is to have deeper conversations with people trying to change the way the earth spins -- to follow my own curiosity, and help me and you better understand how the world works and how to move with more intention. I'm Sherveen Mashayekhi, founder and CEO of venture-backed Free Agency, and I'm an angel investor & startup super-nerd.

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