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Running Through Walls: Healthcare. It’s Complicated.

Changing the healthcare system with an entrepreneurial approach sounds logical — but as Blue Shield of California CEO Paul Markovich explains to Venrock’s Bob Kocher, it’s not as easy as it seems. Markovich, who’s been hooked on…

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Running Through Walls: Focus on the Inputs

In this episode of Running Through Walls, David Pakman sits down with Gina Bianchini, CEO and founder of Mightybell. Gina is an expert in community building.

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Running Through Walls: From Genentech to Facebook to Startup: Part Two

The best way to learn how to grow a new company is to watch how other leaders manage the job, in good times and in bad. David Ebersman, who’s now CEO of Lyra Health, spent 15 years at Genentech, eventually…

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Running Through Walls: Going for the Gold

Vocera’s Brent Lang has accomplished something that few CEOs have done. While taking his company public in 2012 was a major milestone, what I’m referring to is winning an Olympic gold medal in swimming at the 1988 games in Seoul, South Korea. Lang has…

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Running Through Walls: Talk About (Your) Mistakes

Steven Aldrich, chief product officer at GoDaddy, has spent his career at a mix of large-cap companies, small businesses, and brand-new startups. He’s amassed a storehouse of lessons that companies at any place in their journey can learn from…

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Running Through Walls: Let the Naysayers Be Your Fuel

For Amanda Kahlow and 6Sense, one of the most important aspects of the company is its culture. The values of the company have been baked into the operations of the team, how it interacts with itself and its customers.

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Running Through Walls: From Genentech to Facebook to Startup: Part One

David Ebersman, CEO of Lyra Health, has seen the inner workings of Silicon Valley leadership from the perspective of both startups and global giants. As CFO of Facebook from 2009 to 2014, Ebersman lived…

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Running Through Walls: Genetic Truths, No Veneers

Anne Wojcicki’s passion for empowering consumers to take control of their healthcare goes all the way back to her days on Wall Street, as a healthcare investment analyst. When she went to medical investment meetings, “everything looked pretty —…

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Running Through Walls: Building a Cancer Killer

“If it’s a good idea, money will find it,” says Samuel Mazin, co-founder and president of RefleXion Medical, a company that’s developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system for cancer treatment. Mazin, who became inspired to build a…

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Running Through Walls: Data Driven Healthcare

Is it possible to make changes to the American healthcare system that will benefit patients, doctors, and society? It’s what Farzad Mostashari is aiming at with Aledade, the company he founded in 2014. As Mostashari explained to Venrock partner Bob…

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