A Case for Techno Realism with Deena Shakir
Deena Shakir is an investor who is obsessed with expanding access to the basic health services people need and often can’t access: pediatric care, community health and women’s services. Her journey to investing passed through policymaking, journalism and big tech and her early techno optimism has given way to a much more nuanced and pragmatic view. She is able to see the big opportunities for impact hiding in plain sight.
We discuss:
The two obvious megatrends hitting healthcare: GLP1s and AI
And the not so obvious opportunity: doing basic things better
How Dobbs was an accelerant, not a…
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