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Guy Mansueto Has Spent 30 Years Making Complicated Healthcare Technology Make Sense
Before he sold the promise of healthcare software, Guy Mansueto helped install it. That operator's education became the quiet advantage behind a career spanning Allscripts, Phytel, IBM Watson Health, Bamboo Health and PartsSource.
Kesava Dinakaran Solved 290 Cubes. Then He Took On a Bigger Puzzle
A cube record, 4,000 kilometers by bicycle and more than 100 unanswered investor emails taught Luminai's founder the same lesson: complicated systems yield to patient, repeatable moves.
Benjamin Shaker Built One Market. Then It Became the Operating Manual.
Agilon health began its national field test in Columbus with Benjamin Shaker at the controls. His career since has been an exercise in making a local partnership repeatable without making it generic.
Sam Slezek Is Taking on the Paperwork Nobody Wants
After Morgan Stanley, venture capital, Instacart and Scale AI, Sam Slezek chose a gloriously unglamorous problem: helping healthcare organizations get through the paperwork between a provider and an insurance network.
Kriti Arora Left the Spreadsheet Behind. The Messy Work Was Just Beginning.
The Mantys founder moved from consulting to venture capital to SaaS finance, then followed the harder problem into hospital corridors across the Gulf. Her operating philosophy is unusually plain: chase the truth, mind the small details, and let the work change your mind.
John Erwin Built a 20-Person Bet Into a Healthcare Switchboard
He spent 15 years learning how conversations move people. Then he carried that lesson into healthcare, where the next useful action can matter more than the cleverest software.
Russ Richmond Is Building Software for the People Stuck Between Strategy and the Shift
The Laudio co-founder has spent a quarter-century turning healthcare data into action. His product insight is disarmingly simple: software should give a manager time back, then get out of the way.
Veeraj Shah
Veeraj Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Vitalize (YC W23), a San Francisco company building software to fix hospital operations, starting with staffing and scheduling. A 2021 Gates Cambridge Scholar who walked away from a Cambridge PhD to run the company full-time, he is a three-time healthcare founder whose earlier work spanned the U.S. Surgeon General's office, IBM Watson Health, and the National Cancer Institute. Vitalize is now live across more than 20 hospitals.