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Startup capital accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator has a long history of backing healthcare startups, with a particular focus on technical founders tackling difficult problems. In this episode, YC partners Jared Friedman and Ankit Gupta share their insights on healthcare investment, the transformative potential of AI, and why they believe young, tactical founders will continue to disrupt the healthcare industry despite its challenges.We cover:
In Episode 2 of our Consumer Health Edge podcast, Vaishnavi Save and Ankit Gupta delve into the dynamic world of data-driven customer journeys, sales, and distribution. We uncover the pivotal role of data analytics in optimizing shelf space for consumer health companies, suggesting how tools revolutionize in-store strategies. Understanding the consumer journey is paramount, with insights gathered from loyalty programs, social platforms, and primary market research. We explore the meticulous process of cleansing and storing data, essential for extracting actionable insights through diagnostic, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Moreover, we unravel the nuanced landscape of sales and distribution optimization, where data empowers companies to fine-tune their strategies, maximize revenue, and identify growth opportunities. Join us as we unravel the intricate web of data-driven healthcare strategies, offering a glimpse into the future of the industry.
The biggest challenge in addiction treatment is the stigma of addiction in our culture. In this episode, Ankit Gupta, the founder and CEO of Bicycle Health, explains how his company focuses on addressing the opioid crisis by offering virtual, national treatment for opioid use disorder, combining medications, recovery coaching, and a comprehensive care model. Ankit explains the unique aspects of Bicycle Health's care delivery model, which operates in 48 states and partners with major health plans. The company's virtual services, including medication management, psychotherapy, and drug testing, aim to make addiction treatment accessible and confidential. Ankit emphasizes the importance of overcoming the stigma associated with addiction and encourages listeners to understand addiction better, meet people in recovery, and hear their stories to see addiction in a more commonplace way. Tune in and learn about Bicycle Health's innovative approach to opioid addiction treatment, the challenges they've faced, and the importance of fostering a patient-centric healthcare system! Resources: Watch the entire interview here. Connect with and follow Ankit on LinkedIn here. Learn more about Estenda Solutions on LinkedIn, X, and their website. Buy Dreamland by Sam Quinones here. Email Ankit here.
About Sarthak Ahuja: My next guest and co-host on The One Percent Project is Sartha Ahuja. In this episode, Sarthak & I deep dive into India's Food and Beverage industry. We discuss the unit economics of running a restaurant to making butter chicken, ordering patterns in India, the business models of food aggregators like Zomato and Swiggy, cloud kitchens, and the reason behind the rise and fall of Uber Eats. We uncover the success story behind Domino's and how in such a competitive industry, Ankit Gupta and Chirag Chhajer built Burma Burma, a Burmese cuisine restaurant chain. Sarthak shares how consumer businesses must undergo a "speed Ludo test," emphasising time efficiency, small transaction sizes, and positive unit economics. This strategy is essential for long-term success in a price-sensitive market like India. Sarthak is a published author, a seasoned Chartered Accountant with expertise in startup advisory and investment banking and a LinkedIn top voice who brings a wealth of intriguing insights to the discussion. Key Take Aways & Transcript: https://bit.ly/TOP_BusinessBreakdownIndianFB Follow & Subscribe: WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/TOP_WA2 YouTube: https://bit.ly/TOP_YouTubeVideos LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/TOP_LinkedIn Instagram: https://bit.ly/TOP_Insta 00:00 Intro 04:10 The most ordered dishes 09:21 Indian Food Preferences and the Authenticity of Chinese Cuisine 11:06 The Business Models and Unit Economics of the Food Industry 15:40 The Challenges and Economics of Running a Restaurant 39:54 The Success Story of Domino's in the Indian Market 44:38 Identifying Opportunities in the Food Industry 45:18 Burma Burma's reason of success
For decades custom applications were the norm. It allowed organisations to create applications that were designed to the very minute requirements of the business. Of course, the downside is that these applications require more time to build, most likely more expensive to maintain, have questionable transparency practices being applied, and someday run the risk of the original developers no longer being around to maintain them.With the growing popularity of citizen developers using low-code or no-code platforms, is there a value for custom applications?Joining us today on PodChats for FutureCIO is Ankit Gupta, practice director at the Everest Group, to shed light on the future of custom applications.1. Define for us what we mean by custom applications.2. Custom application/coding has decades of practice, particularly during the heady days of mainframes and monoliths. How has it evolved during the era of SaaS and cloud computing?3. To what extent do business leaders require IT to continue with custom development (to cater to the perceived uniqueness of business processes) vs using SaaS solutions?4. How will standardising on SaaS impact the application team?5. What will the adoption of low-code/no-code – the democratisation of programming – mean for the future of application development?6. How do you see AI impacting application development? 7. Do we still need custom applications in 2024? What conditions?
In this episode, Mint's Jash Kriplani spoke with Ankit Gupta, co-founder of BondsIndia on the new investment product called STRIPS and why investors should consider it.
Ankit Gupta is a repeat entrepreneur who has not only built and scaled startups but who has been through the full cycle to an exit too. His latest venture, Bicycle Health, has acquired funding from top-tier investors like Questa Capital Management, City Light Capital, Frist Cressey Ventures, and InterAlpen Partners.
On the episode today, we have with us Ankit Gupta, Co-Founder of Burma BurmaIf you like the content we create, please drop us a review on Spotify & Apple. And join our No Spam Whatsapp Group to get summaries of the content we create. On the episode, we talk to Ankit about the business of restaurants, how food entrepreneurs can do market research, how restaurants are conceptualized and the painful processes that restaurant founders have to go through to get a concept to life! Burma Burma is one of my favorite restaurants, and what makes this even more unique is that its a vegetarian restaurants with no alcohol. A brave counter-positioning in the tough business of restaurants. Episode Outline: (02:41) - Thesis Behind Burma Burma(06:02) - Validating the idea of Burmese Cuisine in India(07:53) - What does it take to start a restaurant?(12:16) - Ankit's advice to people who want to start a restaurant (14:30) - Challenges in the Restaurant Industry(15:12) - The issue with Alcohol license in India(17:00) - Economics of Restaurant Business(20:00) - The Value and Supply Chain of Restaurants(25:10) - How to market a new restaurant?(27:20) - Burma Burma's scale up journey(28:23) - Challenges with growing through franchising(29:38) - How Burma Burma built its processes and talent pipeline to scale to 6 cities?(32:42) - The Backend team to required to build a chain of restaurants?(35:28) - Decision to enter the D2C Phase with Pantry (37:55) - Surviving the pandemic (41:05) - Scaling up the Burma Burma Brand beyond food(42:55) - What kind of investors invest in restaurant businesses?(44:40) - How has Ankit's relationship with money evolved over a period of time?
OVERVIEW: Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner, and Host of the Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy podcast talks with Ankit Gupta, founder, and CEO of Bicycle Health. Ankit looks back on his experiences with Pulse News and LinkedIn, sharing advice for people thinking about starting their own business. He talks about launching Bicycle Health and his passion for treating opioid use disorder. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Ankit grew up in Mumbai, India. He always enjoyed writing code and programming. He discovered his passion for user-centric design while working on his master's at Stanford. Ankit noticed when people read news online, they had to open and toggle between different tabs across various publications. To solve this problem, he created the mobile app Pulse News. Pulse News started as a standalone app and later became the foundation for LinkedIn's news feed, which creates a personalized newspaper for users. When it comes to solving a problem, Ankit advises entrepreneurs to take user feedback to heart. He also believes a small team of dedicated people can create more value than a company with hundreds of employees. Ankit worked at LinkedIn for 3 years, integrating the news app and also working on startup projects on the B2B side of the company. He left LinkedIn and traveled for two years, pursuing educational opportunities and spending time with his family. During these two years, he learned about the problems in healthcare and technology while working on a project with a nonprofit in India. He launched Bicycle Health to treat opioid use disorder utilizing telemedicine. Ankit learned about the problems surrounding this disorder while shadowing an anesthesiologist. A special license is needed to prescribe suboxone. Clinics offering this treatment can only treat 30 to 100 patients in the first year—275 patients max after that. Ankit was the initial developer of Bicycle Health, but more than writing code, he enjoyed growing the business. COVID accelerated the demand for telemedicine. Regulations have changed as well so Bicycle Health works with a law firm to be able to meet this demand. Ankit created a nonprofit, Docs and Hackers, to improve the practice of medicine with technology. 3 KEY POINTS: The Pulse News app, which aggregates news articles, started out as a school project, became a full-blown business, and was later acquired by LinkedIn. The stigma on addiction gets in the way of accessing treatment so Bicycle Health became an online provider of medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence. Building a solution and going into entrepreneurship is easy once you identify the population you want to help and understand what their needs and desires are. TWEETABLE QUOTES: “It's more about really understanding who your users are as a human being.” - Ankit Gupta “The issues around convenience, affordability, privacy, and access are something that telemedicine can really help overcome.” - Ankit Gupta “Entrepreneurship is a really satisfying job.” - Ankit Gupta RESOURCES: Ankit Gupta's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta00/ Bicycle Health: https://www.bicyclehealth.com/ Foley & Lardner LLP: https://www.foley.com/en Do you enjoy our podcast? Leave a rating and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/hea Don't want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast: https://followthepodcast.com/hea #HealthcareEntrepreneurAcademy #healthcare #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #podcast #LinkedIn #appdevelopment #opioidaddiction #telemedicine
In the latest episode of our tech podcast, Ankit Gupta, Head of Engineering at Cult.fit discusses the technology behind customised digital fitness
Ankit Gupta shares his views on innovation in the time of crisis. Currently, he works with an Indonesian super app called "GoJek", and specifically in their FinTech arm "GoPay" as Vice President and head of growth. Before GoJek, he was working with Myntra and lead growth products. The #Coronavirus pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on the business community. Now, more than ever, it has become crucial for business leaders to assume a strong leadership role to navigate the unfamiliarity and uncertainty presented by #COVID19. We bring to you #podcast series in which we interview leaders that are accelerating #CorporateInnovation in times of crisis.We at T-Hub power corporate innovation through high impact partnerships. Know more, https://bit.ly/2QTnRSS. #InnovationEcosystem #InnovateWithTHub
This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Augmedix. To learn how they are revolutionizing the electronic health record: https://augmedix.com/passionatepioneers/ (CLICK HERE) --- Over the past several years, more healthcare leaders understand and admit the opioid epidemic has impacted all walks of life in every corner of our country. Because of this reckoning, more healthcare innovation leaders are applying their brilliance and passion for helping others by building game-changing innovations to empower patients experiencing opioid dependence and addiction. During this episode, Ankit Gupta joins us for a powerful and meaningful conversation. Ankit is the CEO of Bicycle Health and has dedicated his company to help patients lead fulfilling and opioid-free lives. While together, Ankit outlines why he began building his startup and the positive results his technology is producing in the marketplace. Additionally, Ankit shares the personal joy he receives from hearing the real-life patient stories of triumph his team is helping to achieve. Join us for this inspiring conversation as we continue to work together to help move our nation's health forward! Episode Highlights: Ankit’s journey of building and selling his company to LinkedIn How Ankit got into the healthcare industry by first visiting India Ankit’s business model to fight against the opioid crisis Where Ankit sees his platform making an impact in the future About our Guest: Ankit Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Bicycle Health. Ankit is passionate about the power of technology to create patient-centric experiences that can deliver high-quality outcomes at scale. Before Bicycle Health, Ankit was the Co-Founder and CTO of Pulse News. With over 30 million users and a shoutout by ex-Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Pulse was acquired by LinkedIn and has now become the LinkedIn Newsfeed. He graduated from IIT Bombay with a bachelor’s and Stanford University with a masters in Computer Science (specializing in Machine Learning). In his spare time, Ankit volunteers for his non-profit Docs and Hackers which aims to bridge the gap between the technology and healthcare worlds. He also enjoys a good cup of coffee, a hike and a good brew, ideally in that order. Links Supporting This Episode: Bicycle Health website: https://www.bicyclehealth.com/ (CLICK HERE) Ankit Gupta LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta00/ (CLICK HERE) Ankit Gupta Twitter page: https://twitter.com/gankit (CLICK HERE) Visit our website: https://www.passionatepioneers.com/ (CLICK HERE) Subscribe to newsletter: https://forms.gle/PLdcj7ujAGEtunsj6 (CLICK HERE) Guest nomination form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqk_H_a79gCRsBLynkGp7JbdtFRWynTvPVV9ntOdEpExjQIQ/viewform (CLICK HERE) Support this podcast
Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0404 – Ankit Gupta – TTUPhD candidate and Grad Research Assistant in Mech Eng Dept at TTU, expertise in AM processes (Laser sintering and Fused Filament […]
Our guest is: Ankit Gupta, Founder & CEO of Bicycle Health. "Bicycle Health is a virtual Addiction Medicine clinic to treat opioid dependence/use disorder. They accept referrals from physicians for all patients on high dose chronic opioids, regardless of whether they have been diagnosed with opioid use disorder or not. All physicians can make a referral - just like you'd make to any specialist. Addiction medicine specialists on the Bicycle Health platform will treat their patients and they work with the patient's insurance to get reimbursed for their services." On this episode, we discussed: - His background - How he got to where he is today? - What is Bicycle Health? - What's next? - ...and much more! WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: Our sponsor for this episode is BlocHealth. BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of healthcare services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. Through the platform, healthcare professionals and organizations can use their credentialing data for more! They can store their credentialing and licensing-related documents, fill out a smart, common application and use the information within it to order multiple services such as provider enrollment, license registration, license renewals, and more! For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com and be sure to follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth To learn more about Bicycle Health, please use the links below: - Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - Facebook Also, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels: - Website - Facebook - LinkedIn
25 Guests 1 EpisodeA special episode on the podcast this week. On this episode we share with you nuggets from our first 25 episodes. Let us know which one is your favourite. Time stamp:0:24 - Sachin Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO HackerEarth1:28 - Nakul Shenoy, Mentalist & Mystery Entertainer2:23 - Rajesh Magow, Co-Founder & Group CEO MakeMyTrip3:35 - Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder Info Edge(Naukri) 5:10 - Miten Sampat, Ex- CSO Times Internet7:11 - Paras Chopra, Founder & Chairman Wingify8:40 - Sanjay Jain, Partner Bharat Innovation Fund10:37 - Sangeet Paul Choudary, Founder Platformation Labs12:05 - Padma Parthasarathy, Senior VP Tech Mahindra13:19 - Meeta Malhotra, Founder The Hard Copy 15:29 - Mekin Maheshwari, Founder Udhyam16:47 - Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners 19:00 - Neeraj Aggarwal, Co-Founder & COO xto10x Technologies20:15 - Saikiran Krishnamurthy, Co-Founder & CEO xto10x Technologies22:00 - Anshuman Bapna, Ex-CPO MakeMyTrip 23:30 - Sanjay Anandaram, Mentor & Investor25:00 - Prasad Kompalli, Co-Founder & CEO mfine26:14 - Ashwin Ramesh, CEO Synup27:32 - Bala Parthasarathy, Co-Founder & CEO Moneytap29:36 - Anshul Rai, Co-Founder & CEO Happay30:40 - Ankit Gupta, Co-Founder Quizizz31:25 - Byas Nambisan, CEO Ezetap32:50 - Sumit Chhazed, Co-Founder OTO Capital33:35 - Rajeev Srivatsa, Partner Antler India35:01 - Vinay Bagri, Co-Founder & CEO Niyo Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/
How should one think about building "the new wave" of biopharma teams? Turns out we can rely on principles from existing domains. In this episode, I talk with Ankit Gupta, CTO and Co-Founder of Reverie Labs, on systematization as a foundation, and on optimizing properties of a drug using machine learning and software-oriented frameworks. Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-data-pulse/support
Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners chats with Ankit Gupta, Co-Founder Quizizz, one of our portfolio companies. In this conversation, they chat about how Quizizz has successfully pivoted into a learning platform that turns homework and test into the game, how they were able to mark their presence in 50% US schools without spending a dollar on marketing and importance of design on digital products. Listen to the podcast to learn about 1:00 - How the childhood experiences of the two founders sparked the idea for Quizizz 4:30 - 2 user feedbacks that led to the birth of Quizizz 7:30 - When will we see Quizizz in Indian classrooms? 8:30 - Why Quizizz’s marketing spend has always been $0? 10:30 - What role did design play in the success of Quizizz? For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/quizizz-transforming-homework-and-tests-kids-ankit-gupta-co-founder-quizizz/) Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. Follow Prime Venture Partners: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/
Show Notes: (2:04) Ankit discussed his college experience at the Amity School of Engineering and Tech in which he studied Computer Science and Engineering. (3:34) Ankit talked about his first role out of school as a Senior Solution Integrator role at Ericsson. (5:20) Ankit talked about a unique aspect of his role at Ericsson, which was global collaboration and communication with clients all over the world, including the US, UK, and Nigeria. (7:50) Ankit went over his 2 years at Core Services working as an Oracle Applications Technical Consultant. (9:25) Ankit gave his story about pursuing a Master’s Degree in Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon. (10:56) Ankit talked about his Teaching Assistant experience for a couple of Python courses at CMU. (12:13) Ankit talked about this capstone work for his Master’s degree. (13:27) Ankit gave a brief overview about Crisis Text Line. (14:48) Ankit provided the context for his article on LinkedIn called "Triage for Crisis Counseling: How our algorithm prioritizes suicidal texts" that he wrote during his summer internship at Crisis Text Line. (16:40) Ankit discussed a couple of interesting projects he has been involved with since accepting a full-time Data Scientist role at Crisis Text Line in January 2017. (21:19) Ankit talked about his post “Embracing AI to save lives” on Crisis Text Line’s blog, which uses machine learning to identify previously missed imminent risk conversations and reduce false alarms. (28:01) Referring to another piece called "Detecting crisis - An AI solution", Ankit discussed the impacts of AI at Crisis Text Line. (30:34) Ankit talked about the vision of Crisis Text Line’s CEO, Nancy Lublin. (33:21) Ankit gave his advice on becoming good at data science. (37:37) Ankit went over his participation in Toastmasters New York, an organization that operates worldwide for the purpose of promoting communication and public speaking skills. (40:10) Ankit talked about the data science community in New York City. (42:47 ) Closing segment. His Contact Info: LinkedIn Twitter His Recommended Resources: Practical Deep Learning For Coders DataKind Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX Ray Dalio’s Principles Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data
Show Notes: (2:04) Ankit discussed his college experience at the Amity School of Engineering and Tech in which he studied Computer Science and Engineering. (3:34) Ankit talked about his first role out of school as a Senior Solution Integrator role at Ericsson. (5:20) Ankit talked about a unique aspect of his role at Ericsson, which was global collaboration and communication with clients all over the world, including the US, UK, and Nigeria. (7:50) Ankit went over his 2 years at Core Services working as an Oracle Applications Technical Consultant. (9:25) Ankit gave his story about pursuing a Master’s Degree in Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon. (10:56) Ankit talked about his Teaching Assistant experience for a couple of Python courses at CMU. (12:13) Ankit talked about this capstone work for his Master’s degree. (13:27) Ankit gave a brief overview about Crisis Text Line. (14:48) Ankit provided the context for his article on LinkedIn called "Triage for Crisis Counseling: How our algorithm prioritizes suicidal texts" that he wrote during his summer internship at Crisis Text Line. (16:40) Ankit discussed a couple of interesting projects he has been involved with since accepting a full-time Data Scientist role at Crisis Text Line in January 2017. (21:19) Ankit talked about his post “Embracing AI to save lives” on Crisis Text Line’s blog, which uses machine learning to identify previously missed imminent risk conversations and reduce false alarms. (28:01) Referring to another piece called "Detecting crisis - An AI solution", Ankit discussed the impacts of AI at Crisis Text Line. (30:34) Ankit talked about the vision of Crisis Text Line’s CEO, Nancy Lublin. (33:21) Ankit gave his advice on becoming good at data science. (37:37) Ankit went over his participation in Toastmasters New York, an organization that operates worldwide for the purpose of promoting communication and public speaking skills. (40:10) Ankit talked about the data science community in New York City. (42:47 ) Closing segment. His Contact Info: LinkedIn Twitter His Recommended Resources: Practical Deep Learning For Coders DataKind Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX Ray Dalio’s Principles Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data
Vijaysai Patnaik, a product manager on Google's Self Driving Car team talks with the host Ankit Gupta about product management at Google, future of autonomous vehicles and how to get into product management. Vijay shares details of a product manager's day-to-day role at Google, the difference between project and product management, and the importance of vision in building products. Many ideas from this episode can be used to improve the product management function at your startup.
Pulse Co-Founders Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta were curious Stanford graduate students always interested in taking on side projects to learn something new. In this light-hearted and insightful lecture, Kothari and Gupta discuss their experiences integrating what they learned into developing an elegant product, which eventually led to their startup's acquisition by LinkedIn.
Pulse Co-Founders Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta were curious Stanford graduate students always interested in taking on side projects to learn something new. In this light-hearted and insightful lecture, Kothari and Gupta discuss their experiences integrating what they learned into developing an elegant product, which eventually led to their startup's acquisition by LinkedIn.
Pulse Co-Founders Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta were curious Stanford graduate students always interested in taking on side projects to learn something new. In this light-hearted and insightful lecture, Kothari and Gupta discuss their experiences integrating what they learned into developing an elegant product, which eventually led to their startup's acquisition by LinkedIn.