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James Currier was born an entrepreneur. Before turning 18, he had launched 18 businesses. After years in corporate jobs, he fully embraced his entrepreneurial calling. He co-founded Tickle, one of the internet's first successful user-generated platforms, which grew to 150 million users before being acquired by Monster.com for $110 million. Now, as a founding partner at NFX, he invests in high-growth startups leveraging network effects. In this episode, James joins Ilana to discuss the power of network effects in scaling businesses, the key traits of great founders, and how to spot technology windows for timely investments. James Currier is a five-time founder, angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon, and a founding partner at NFX, an early-stage venture capital firm. He is an expert in building high-growth companies that leverage network effects.  In this episode, Ilana and James will discuss: (00:00) Introduction  (00:27) Embracing Entrepreneurship from a Young Age (04:35) From Corporate Jobs to Building His First Startup (08:45) Navigating Rejections and the Dot-Com Crash (12:24) Understanding Viral vs. Network Effects (19:12) The Reality of Running Multiple Startups  (21:26) Why Attempting to Fix Healthcare Was a Mistake (27:10) Building NFX into a Leading Venture Firm (31:58) Balancing Optimism and Risk in Investing (35:16) The Key Traits that Make a Great Founder (37:45) What It Takes to Be a Successful Entrepreneur (40:33) The Role of Technology Windows in Startup Success James Currier is a five-time founder, angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon, and a founding partner at NFX, an early-stage venture capital firm. He co-founded Tickle, one of the internet's first successful user-generated companies, which was acquired by Monster.com. James also co-founded Wonderhill (merged with Kabam), IronPearl (acquired by PayPal), and Jiff (merged with Castlight). He is an expert in building high-growth companies that leverage network effects.  Connect with James: James's Website: nfx.com James's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jamescurrier  Resources Mentioned: NFX Article, Viral Effects Are Not Network Effects: https://www.nfx.com/post/viral-effects-vs-network-effects  NFX Article, Technology Windows: The Unseen Force Driving Your Startup: https://www.nfx.com/post/technology-windows NFX Article, How “Venture Capital 3.0” Impacts Founders in the AI Age: https://www.nfx.com/post/venture-capital-3  Leap Academy: Ready to make the LEAP in your career? There is a NEW way for professionals to Advance Their Careers & Make 5-6 figures of EXTRA INCOME in Record Time. Check out our free training today at leapacademy.com/training

I did this interview with John Driscoll, co-author of Pay the People! Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America, earlier this week, assuming that Harris would lose the election. And let's be clear: she did lose an election that should have been eminently winnable. Driscoll spelt it out clearly in a powerful The Hill article last week about how raising the minimum wage is the key to the White House for Harris. The problem with Harris, and most of the Democratic party, is their failure to offer a coherent and politically sellable economic alternative to Trumpism. John Driscoll and his group of successful business leaders at Patriotic Millionaires offer that alternative. It's not socialism, but it is an undisguised and unapologetic attempt to recognize the economic predicament of the American working class and to resurrect the American Dream by leveling the playing field. That's the way to defeat Trumpism. Not by smiling inanely and saying nothing.John Driscoll chairs the Waystar Corporation and is a senior advisor at Walgreens Boots Alliance. Previously, he was CEO at CareCentrix, president of Castlight, group president at Medco, and SVP at Oxford Health Plans. John also served as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve and is a longtime board member of the Alliance for Hunger and The Patriotic Millionaires. The co-author, with Morris Pearl, of Pay the People! (The New Press), he lives in Stamford, Connecticut.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

"This decade will be defined by the affordability crisis and our vision as a company is to solve the affordability crisis in US healthcare," apree health CEO Donald Trigg explains to Bloomberg Intelligence in this episode of the Vanguards of Health Care podcast. Trigg joins BI senior health care analyst Jonathan Palmer for a deep dive into apree's advanced primary care and digital engagement capabilities, how the combination of Vera Whole Health and Castlight positions the company to bring a differentiated solution set to help employers as well as health plans improve outcomes while lowering costs, and its progress in proving out its thesis across distinct market models.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest on this episode is Todd Park. Todd is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Devoted Health, a Medicare Advantage “payvider” providing virtual and in-home medical care for older Americans and leveraging their technology platform to drive clinical results. Founded in 2017, Devoted's team of over 2,000 cares for nearly 124,000 members across 14 states. Todd previously served as the White House Technology Advisor and the HHS Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration, and was the co-founder of athenahealth and Castlight. In this episode, I spoke with Todd about His entrepreneurial journey His time in the White House Why Devoted is situated to transform the healthcare experience for older Americans

Jacob and Nikhil sit down with Naomi Allen, CEO and founder of Brightline (child and teen focused mental health company that's raised >$100M) and Castlight/Livongo exec. They discuss the difficulties of balancing employer customers and employee satisfaction at Castlight, how Livongo captured member delight and Brightline's care model.

Jacob sits down with Homeward Health CEO and former Castlight and Livongo CMO Dr. Jenny Schneider to discuss solving provider shortages in rural markets, how tech can/can't help care and what Livongo did to make coaching more effective.

In this episode, we deconstruct James Currier's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. James is General Partner of NfX. We cover working with ADD, bonding curves, and a Buddhist perspective of success. “I think about it from a Buddhist perspective, which is that just being present and being in joy is success, and therefore it's available to anyone.” – James Currier EPISODE GUIDE (LINKS, QUOTES, NOTES, AND BOOKS MENTIONED) https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/james-currier2-outlier-academy-show-notes  FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/james-currier-outlier-academy-transcript  CHAPTERS In this episode, we deconstruct James Currier's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. In it we cover: (00:00:00) – Introduction (00:00:35) – Bonding curves and seeing the big picture (00:03:14) – Working with ADD, avoiding alcohol and sugar, and finding the love of your life (00:05:22) – Learning from Joseph Campbell and Niall Ferguson (00:06:05) – Your Life on Network Effects (00:09:04) – A Buddhist perspective of success (00:10:13) – Choosing the right industry ABOUT JAMES CURRIER James Currier is General Partner of NFX, an early stage VC firm with a focus on startups with potential for network effects. Before founding NFX, James co-founded four successful companies: Tickle (acquired by Monster), Wonderhill (merged with Kabam), IronPearl (acquired by PayPal), and Jiff (merged with Castlight).

Meet Jennifer Schneider, M.D., M.S.:Jennifer Schneider, M.D., M.S. is the co-founder and CEO of Welina Care. Dr. Schneider is on the board of Directors for Health Assurance Acquisition Corp. She is also the author of “Decoding Health Signals: Silicon Valley's Consumer-First Approach to a New Era of Health.” Previously, Dr. Schneider served as Chief Medical Officer and President for Livongo, and the Chief Medical Officer for Castlight. She received a Doctor of Medicine from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Master's in Health Services Research from Stanford University. Key Insights:Dr. Schneider's background in data science and specialty care has led to her newest project, rearchitecting care delivery in rural America. Personalization Through Language. Using data to better personalize health recommendations improves patient outcomes. For example, Dr. Schneider found that using the phrase “a touch of sugar” instead of “diabetes” increased enrollment in a diabetes intervention in southern populations. (6:28)Improving Rural Healthcare. 20% of people live in rural America, but rural healthcare lacks access and resources. Welina Care is working to deliver high quality specialty care to rural populations through remote monitoring, medical home delivery, and telehealth. (15:36)Becoming an Entrepreneur. Find something that matters both to you and to the healthcare ecosystem. Then, build a team of like-minded people around that goal. And know that the innovator's journey to success is never linear. (28:50)This episode is hosted by Aaron Martin. He is a member of the Advisory Council for Day Zero and is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer for Providence, and Managing General Partner of PV.Relevant Links:Check out Dr. Schneider's book “Decoding Health Signals: Silicon Valley's Consumer-First Approach to a New Era of Health”Read “Click-and mortar is a better model for healthcare” by Dr. Schneider

What's this? A new show? Sort of: Health in 2 Point 00 is now called Health Tech Deals! In our first episode, Jess and Matthew reminisce a bit on our previous 247 episodes, and talk about new huge deals in health tech: Transcarent raises $200 million, bringing their total to $298 million and bringing their valuation to over $1 Billion, more than their competitor Accolade; Medically Home raise $110 million, bringing their total to $274 million; Vera Whole Health buys Castlight for $370 million; Stryker buys Vocera for $2.97 billion.

What's this? A new show? Sort of: Health in 2 Point 00 is now called Health Tech Deals! In our first episode, Jess and Matthew reminisce a bit on our previous 247 episodes, and talk about new huge deals in health tech: Transcarent raises $200 million, bringing their total to $298 million and bringing their valuation to over $1 Billion, more than their competitor Accolade; Medically Home raise $110 million, bringing their total to $274 million; Vera Whole Health buys Castlight for $370 million; Stryker buys Vocera for $2.97 billion.

January 6, 2022: Our 7investing team has a policy that we don't publicly reveal our official recommendations. Our members subscribe to our service for our research, and we always consider our recommendation reports as proprietary IP. We reserve these reports, as well as our team's discussion about the stocks during the month when we recommend them, for our paying subscribers. However, a unique opportunity recently presented itself, which allows us to once again publicly share our research in a way that doesn't compromise our policy. Castlight Health (NYSE: CSLT) was the official recommendation of 7investing lead advisor Dana Abramovitz in November 2021. On January 5, 2022, Vera Whole Health announced it had made an official all-cash offer to acquire Castlight Health for $2.05 per share. We believe this is a win-win for Castlight as a business and also for its shareholders. We also expect the deal will close and do not expect there to be another offer. As such, we are officially selling our shares and closing the Castlight position from our 7investing scorecard. We also have decided to make our initial November 2021 recommendation report publicly available. This is a great opportunity for us to showcase one of our actual recommendation reports and also give a sneak-peek into our investing process. As this now-public research demonstrates, each team member wields a deep understanding of their respective domains — we're not just handing members a list of tickers. We thoroughly and objectively evaluate opportunities and challenges to encourage members to adopt a long-term mindset. The team at 7investing comprises experts in biotechnology, health care, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, fintech, disruptive innovation, space technologies, and more. If you're interested in gaining access to seven of these recommendations each month, please subscribe today! We hope you enjoy our actual November 2021 Deep Dive team discussion. The transcript follows, and the video pitch is displayed above. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education: https://www.7investing.com Follow us: ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/7investing/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/7investing/support

“Every company is its own work of art, and the founder is the artist.” – James Currier James Currier (@JamesCurrier) is General Partner of NFX, an early stage VC firm with a focus on startups with potential for network effects. Before founding NFX, James co-founded four successful companies: Tickle (acquired by Monster), Wonderhill (merged with Kabam), IronPearl (acquired by PayPal), and Jiff (merged with Castlight). Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/james-currier1-outlier-academy-show-notes  Chapters in this interview: James' background and journey to NFX Defining network effects and why they are so powerful Virality vs. network effects Examples of businesses with network effects Tweaking rules and systems to take advantage of network effects Networks effects as a business strategy Investing in network effects businesses Advice for founders Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

“I think about it from a Buddhist perspective, which is that just being present and being in joy is success, and therefore it's available to anyone.” – James Currier James Currier (@JamesCurrier) is General Partner of NFX, an early stage VC firm with a focus on startups with potential for network effects. Before founding NFX, James co-founded four successful companies: Tickle (acquired by Monster), Wonderhill (merged with Kabam), IronPearl (acquired by PayPal), and Jiff (merged with Castlight). Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/james-currier2-outlier-academy-show-notes  Chapters in this interview: Bonding curves and seeing the big picture ADD and health habits Recommended books and resources On success, failure and gratitude Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

March 8, 2021: It’s Newsday with Drex DeFord and Bill. Drex had a hip replacement. How was his patient experience? Bill is doing the show from Arizona. What’s it like traveling on a plane during Covid? Are people being stringent with their mask wearing? Does it feel safe? The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is almost upon us. How does the hacking of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine data affect public health? The demand for cybersecurity roles is through the roof. Are healthcare CIO’s willing to step into that position? Microsoft has done the hokey pokey with healthcare 3 or 4 times now. Are their new virtual care, RPM and care coordination cloud updates their best move yet? And Boston Children’s, Harvard, the CDC and Castlight have made it easy for you to find a nearby vaccination site with vaccinefinder.org. Key Points:You don’t want to wear a mask one more day than you have to, but you don't want to take it off one day earlier than you should [00:09:20] The US can do 3 to 4 million vaccines a day [00:10:35] Drex discusses his new role of Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike [00:21:51] Are healthcare CIO’s willing to step into a cybersecurity role? [00:24:45] Approov hacked 30 mobile apps and found all of them to be vulnerable to API attacks. And some allowed access to electronic health records. [00:27:45]Microsoft streamline the virtual experience for patients [00:37:53] Meet Sophia. Banner Health’s patient persona. [00:46:16] Stories:https://vaccinefinder.orgMobile health apps leak sensitive data through APIs, report finds - FierceHealthcare'A new dimension of fraud': 6 cybersecurity execs weigh in on vaccine data hacks, manipulations and leaksMicrosoft updates Cloud for Healthcare with new virtual care, patient monitoring features - Fierce HealthcareKaufman Hall: Hospitals could lose between $53B and $122B this year due to pandemic - FierceHealthcare

In this episode, Vivien interviews Naomi Allen, CEO and Co-Founder of Brightline, a behavioral health care technology company delivered for families and children. We discuss her amazing journey at the forefront of the new digital health wave as one of the founding team members of Castlight, her leadership lessons as Chief Growth Officer Livongo and the amazing story of Brightline and how they launched months before their plan to serve families during the COVID and behavioral health pandemic. In 2019, Naomi founded Brightline to reinvent the way behavioral healthcare is delivered for children and families. Brightline is delivering integrated care through innovative technology, virtual behavioral health sciences, services, and collaborative care teams focus on supporting children across the developmental stages in their families. Most recently, Brightline raised $20M Series A funding led by Threshold Ventures and Oak HC/FT.

Years from now, when Castlight Health CFO Will Bondurant reflects back on the varied chapters of his finance career, he may title the current one “The Turnaround”—that is, if he and Castlight CEO Maeve O’Meara are able to achieve what the firm’s previous management team had not been able to: a strategy transformation. Like his CEO, Bondurant is not an outsider: After joining the firm in 2013, he was assigned a variety of strategy and financial planning duties that led to more influential product strategy and operational roles of the type that many aspiring CFOs eagerly seek out. As Bondurant shared with us his cross-functional journey, he mentioned few titles or promotions but instead drew our attention to a variety of experiences that led us to confidently opine that Castlight’s future CFO first emerged as one of the company’s foremost problem-solvers. Says Bondurant: “If everything is working, you don’t always get the opportunity to fix something. The reason that I was able to have these opportunities is that we had challenges—and from where I sit now, they certainly benefited my own personal development.” Then, in 2017, came a $135 million acquisition, a transaction that management told investors would transform Castlight but instead ended up leaving a trail of merger snags and glitches that ultimately led to the formation of a new management team. At the time, Bondurant no doubt may have appeared to certain investors and outsiders to be a dark horse candidate for the firm’s CFO role. Still, it appears likely that his Castlight colleagues viewed things differently.   “Investor relations was a new area for me—I had been external in my previous roles but principally with customers and partners and the like,” explains Bondurant, who recalls several unpleasant calls with investors after stepping into the CFO role.   “I recall asking myself in the first week, ‘Do these people just hate me? Am I just really disliked by these people?,’” comments Bondurant, who notes that he now enjoys the calls with investors and very often views them as being more productive than his engagements with customers.  –Jack Sweeney Leave rating & review   Signup for our Newsletter GET MORE: Order now The CFO Yearbook, 2021   

Nita Sommers is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures focused on health care. Nita has spent over 20 years working in the health technology sector, with a passion for early-stage, high growth companies transforming health care. She was an early member of the R&D team at athenahealth, which went public in 2007. Additionally, she was one of the first executives at Castlight Health and later managed the company’s IPO in 2014. At Castlight Health, Nita led the company’s early sales efforts and later ran strategy, business development, corporate development and investor relations. Most recently, she was President of Honor, where she was responsible for all aspects of growth including sales, marketing, customer success, business development and corporate development. In addition to her work at start-ups, she also spent several years consulting with McKinsey’s health care practice and working across a number of healthcare industry sectors while with McKesson. Nita enjoys working with early stage companies on growth strategy and execution, including product strategy, commercial strategy, sales management, business development and organizational development. Nita has an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Harvard University. In this episode we discussed: Nita’s experience leading, exiting, and advising first-wave (1990s: athenahealth), second wave (2000s: Castlight) and third+ wave (2010+: Honor, others) digital health companies spanning three decades of health tech What we can learn from these companies’ ascent, as history repeats itself: finding unmet need in a large market, narrowing in on a core set of business challenges, and proving value, not just scaling for scale’s sake What makes the Operating Partner role unique in venture capital, and why her position at Khosla Ventures is distinctive across the healthcare fundraising landscape Tactical advice to women on breaking the glass ceiling as an executive or venture partner

On this episode, we had the honor of sitting down with Stacey Baxter, Engagement Strategy Manager and leader of the Social Impact Committee at Castlight Health. From her experience in the Peace Corps in Botswana as a young adult to her last job at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Stacey brought her mission-driven attitude to transform social impact at Castlight. Her story is a must-listen!

Dena Bravata is co-founder of Lyra Health and Chair of Castlight Health’s healthcare advisory board. She tells us about three of Castlight’s innovative digital health responses to COVID-19. These include the largest national registry of coronavirus testing sites in the United States, a self-assessment for those experiencing symptoms, and a city-specific dataset on vulnerable populations and medical capacity. Everything is publicly available on their website. Fortunately, local public health officials have used these findings to inform capacity planning within their county at the zip code level. People can rely on these digital health solutions, which could ultimately have a lasting impact on the future of healthcare. For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/ You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

Today, we are joined by Maeve O’Meara, the CEO of Castlight Health. From finding the right insurance plan, to understanding what that plan covers, to finding a doctor you trust, making healthcare decisions is difficult, and that's where Castlight comes in. Castlight uses machine learning to provide consumers with deeply personalized guidance so they make better health decisions which ultimately result in lower costs, improved outcomes, and a better experience. In this episode, Chad and Maeve discuss: How Maeve's structured Castlight as a B-to-B-to-C model Castlight's selective and focused marketing strategies Maeve's advice for recruiting top talent to align with your company goals and vision. And much more! — This episode of Mission Daily is brought to you by our friends at TriNet. TriNet makes HR easier, from payroll to benefits to compliance. AND they offer full-service solutions tailored to your industry and your company, whether your team is 10 people or 1,000. Check out TriNet today at trinet.com. — For full show notes and more, go to mission.org/missiondaily.

In this episode, we speak with Derek Newell, SVP of Commercial at Virta Health. Virta is the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes (T2D) without medications or surgery. Derek brings with him a 20-year successful track record of growing and leading innovative healthcare technology and service companies. He previously was CEO of Jiff, which he then sold to Castlight where he became president, leading Sales, Marketing, Technology, Product, and Customer Success. Earlier in his career, Derek was the CEO of Health Hero, pioneer of the first internet-connected medical device approved by the FDA. After growing it into the largest remote patient monitoring company, he sold it in 2008 to Robert Bosch Healthcare, where he served as president of Bosch’s healthcare activities worldwide. Derek also served as the Chief Marketing Officer LifeMasters, a leading disease management company, growing it from less than $10M to over $150M in annual revenue during his 5 year tenure.

In this episode, we are joined by Siobhan Nolan Mangini who is the President of Castlight Health. We learn about Siobhan's career and what led her to Castlight. We learn about her passion for improving healthcare and how she aims to have Castlight be a major part of solving this complex problem. We also learn how she manages being the President of a mission-driven public company and how she manages her time accordingly. Lastly, we get an update on Castlight's new Customer Center of Excellence which recently opened in Sandy .

In this episode, we are joined by Siobhan Nolan Mangini who is the President of Castlight Health. We learn about Siobhan’s career and what led her to Castlight. We learn about her passion for improving healthcare and how she aims to have Castlight be a major part of solving this complex problem. We also learn how she manages being the President of a mission-driven public company and how she manages her time accordingly. Lastly, we get an update on Castlight’s new Customer Center of Excellence which recently opened in Sandy .

Robert Stewart is the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight Health and has been with Castlight since 2011. He led the engineering teams that built Castlight Action, a fully-automated platform for benefits professionals to leverage data and machine learning algorithms to connect employees to the right benefits and programs. Robert previously held senior development and management positions at Voxify, Avaya, and Lucent Bell Labs, and has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Philosophy from Rice University.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakstengel/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

The health care business world gathered at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference this week, with thousands of attendees haggling over deals and gossiping over drinks in San Francisco. One of the standouts at the conference: venture capitalist Bob Kocher, a doctor and Obama administration alumnus known for his provocative thinking and Silicon Valley influence. At Venrock, Bob focuses on health IT and services, with investments in companies like Aledade, Castlight, Stride Health and Zenefits. Speaking with POLITICO’s Dan Diamond, Bob discussed his approach to investing in health care (Starts at the 1:20 mark), how he got into venture capital (8:15), the difference between innovating in government and the private sector (13:45), the sector’s never-ending job growth (17:15), how the current administration is affecting the health care market (21:15) and his 2018 predictions (28:00). There’s also a quick lightning round at 30:15. Then after the break, Dan caught up with Victoria Colliver, POLITICO’s California correspondent for health care, on how the JPM conference went and the biggest health policy stories coming out of the state this year. (Starts at the 32:15 mark.) Note: This podcast was recorded on location, and that’s why the audio sounds rougher than usual. We’d appreciate your help: Please share PULSE CHECK and rate us on your favorite podcast app! Have questions, suggestions or feedback? Email ddiamond@politico.com. Stories referenced on the podcast: Dan’s story, with Bob’s quotes, on the ACA’s failure to cut wasteful jobs: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/07/what-is-the-effect-of-obamacare-economy-000164 Bob’s predictions for health care in 2018: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/venrocks-health-investors-make-predictions-for-2018.html Victoria’s story on California’s effort to shore up the ACA: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/01/obamacare-california-new-york-coastal-244386

James Currier is the Managing Partner @ NFX and one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts in growth and network effects. Just last week, NFX announded their latest fund, a new $150m fund to turn NFX into a significant institution.  As for James, before becoming an investor, he co-founded one of the internet’s first successful user-generated companies, Tickle, in 1999. Under James’ leadership, Tickle grew to become the 18th largest website in the world and was acquired by Monster for $110 million. James then co-founded three other successful companies - Wonderhill (online video games, merged with Kabam in 2010 which then sold for $800M), IronPearl (acquired by PayPal in 2013), and Jiff (raised $68M from Venrock & GE before merging with Castlight in 2017). In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How James made his way from multiple success in the world of operations with Tickle, Jiff and Wonderhill to now managing NFX's new $150m fund? 2.) Why does James believe speed is the number one superpower for startups? How important is being first to market for products? Why does language and psychology play a much more prominent role? What should the correlation be between product and the language used to market the product? 3.) What does James believe the main job of the founder is? Where do most founders go wrong in depicting their story? Why is it so important for founders to "speak with data"? How can one retain that personal sentiment when heavily using data? 4.) Why does James believe that network effects play such a prominent role within value creation of companies? What really is core to network effect success? Other than marketplaces and social networks, what other forms of network effect exist and succeed? 5.) What does James believe is the right mindset for growth? What has James always believed about paid growth? Why is James altering his views on paid growth in today's environment? Does James believe we are in a fallow period for the consumer space? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: James’ Fave Book: The Razor's Edge James’ Fave Blog: The Edge James’ Most Recent Investment: Outdoorsy As always you can follow Harry, James and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Namely is the all-in-one HR, payroll, and benefits platform your employees will love to use. It’s as intuitive as social media, but powerful enough to support the complexity of today’s workforce. Namely’s mission is to help mid-sized companies build a better workplace. See how Namely can transform your workplace at www.Namely.com. Eero is the world’s best-reviewed wifi. A system of eero and eero Beacons wirelessly connects to blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi, so despite the increased number of devices with Christmas coming, you’ll still be able to get powerful mesh WiFi in every nook and cranny of your home, backyard included. No more dead spots, slow spots, drop-offs, or buffering — right out of the box. Eero is only available in the US and Canada and you can check it out here!  

TP039 - Robert Stewart with Castlight: Process and Politics of a Company Merger by Method Matters

John Doyle, Castlight’s Chief Executive Officer, and Derek Newell, Castlight’s President, share their thoughts on the greater implications of Castlight and Jiff’s strategic merger, and examine how Castlight is pushing the evolution of health benefit solutions. For more information on our podcast, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, visit our online healthcare publication at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our full guest roster at https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/industries/health-life-sciences/oliver-wyman-health-podcasts.html.

InsurTech’s role in transforming the management of health benefits—from emerging technologies around accessing care and care delivery to predictive analytics and improving employee engagement. Our conversation with Derek Newell, President of Castlight Health.

Gio Colella, co-founder of RelayHealth and Castlight Health, speaks with Bryan Roberts at Venrock about starting companies and the importance of surrounding yourself with amazing people. Colella advises other entrepreneurs to find partners you can trust, who are very different from you, and who are aligned with the vision for the company. Colella and Roberts also talk about the early days of Castlight and the iterative process that revealed the foundation of the company, as well as the challenges related to managing through the highs and lows as a public company. They also talk about what made RelayHealth’s acquisition by McKesson so successful, in a world where M&A horror stories are rampant. Colella immigrated to the US from Italy and left his psychiatry practice to answer the call of entrepreneurship.

A serial entrepreneur, Steve Wiggins made his bones in health care two decades ago running Oxford Health Plans, a company he describes as being a mix between Castlight and Oscar. Today, Wiggins is chairman of Remedy Partners, a company that’s offering itself to providers as go-between in managing bundled payments from CMS. “We’re the cheapest way into the pro-gram,” Wiggins tells Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa in this week’s podcast. “It would cost a provider anywhere between 4-5% on these bundles to manage them themselves.” Remedy Partners, which manages $5 billion in payments, is able to do the same job for less. Hear Wiggins’ unique take on how companies like Remedy can help fix health care. Guest Bio: Steve Wiggins has over 30 years of experience launching and managing health care companies and has founded seven health care companies including Oxford Health Plans, which grew into a Fortune 300 company under his leadership. Steve is a Managing Director of Essex Woodlands, one of the oldest and largest health care venture capital and growth equity firms. He was also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of HealthMarket, Inc., an insurance company that gave birth to innovative Consumer Driven Health Plans. He co-founded Health Partners, Inc, a physician practice management company. He was also a co-Founder of Intelliclaim, Inc., which provided claim auditing and productivity software and services to over twenty health insurance companies before it was sold to McKesson, and he was the founding investor in Ben-efitPort, LLC, a consolidation of health insurance general agencies. Steve graduated from Macalester College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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HR Happy Hour 209 - Castlight and Enterprise Healthcare Management Recorded LIVE from the Health & Benefits Leadership Conference April 9, 2015 Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Maeve O'Meara, VP Products Castlight Health US organizations spend about $620B annually on employee health and benefits programs and up to 30% of this enormous spend is wasted according to some estimates. For most employers, health and benefits is a Top 3 cost, but most have also only managed these as costs, i.e., as needing to be controlled, managed down, and to be shifted more to employees in the form of greater employee contributions towards care and benefits. But for many organizations, employee benefits have moved from a cost to be managed towards an important asset to be leveraged for employee well-being and organizational success. Today on the show, Steve was joined by Maeve O'Meara, VP Products from Castlight Health, an HR technology solution provider that has created a platform for what is becoming known as 'Enterprise Healthcare Management'.The Castlight platform helps employees access and utilize benefits and health programs and provides them better information, educational resources, and transparency to guide them in actively managing their care. For employers, the platform provides rich analytics about employee use of benefits, trends that are impacting and indicative of workplace challenges and tools to better predict what will happen next with employee benefits utilization. This leads to better experiences for employeesm and better outcomes for employers. Thanks to Maeve and Castlight for joining us!  

1.30.14 Join me as I welcome the writer/director of the new romantic thriller with a paranormal twist "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" ,Mark Edwin Robinson to the show, The DVD was released nationally on this past Tuesday, check it out if you have not yet, and tune in for this great show!