wayfinder
(2)
The Company That Cleans Up Healthcare's Messiest Data Before Anyone Else Can Read It
Everybody wants to do AI on healthcare data. Almost nobody wants to spend two years cleaning it first. Kythera Labs turned that dirty job into a business.
Patrick Cook-Deegan
Patrick Cook-Deegan is the founder and CEO of Wayfinder, a K-12 curriculum company that teaches purpose, belonging, and durable skills to more than 1.5 million students across roughly 4,000 schools. A former All-American lacrosse player turned human-rights advocate in Burma, wilderness guide, and Stanford d.school fellow, he built Wayfinder out of five years teaching character development in an Oakland public high school. He named the company after the ancient Polynesian navigators who crossed oceans without instruments - his bet on how to redesign the American high school for the 21st century.