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Andrew Lacy stumbled into entrepreneurship after failing to land a tech job. His first company did so well that he eventually sold it to Disney. Believing he had business all figured out, he launched another company, only to realize that success wasn't guaranteed. For his next venture, Prenuvo, Andrew took a more thoughtful approach, but investors repeatedly rejected the idea. Determined to make it work, he bootstrapped and secured loans to launch a clinic in Silicon Valley. Today, Prenuvo is revolutionizing preventive healthcare. In this episode, Andrew shares valuable insights on reinventing yourself, making bold career changes, and pushing through setbacks to bring innovative ideas to life. Andrew Lacy is an Australian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the founder/CEO of Prenuvo, a pioneering health tech company using whole-body imaging for early disease detection, including cancer. In this episode, Ilana and Andrew will discuss: (00:00) Introduction (00:35) From Lawyer to Accidental Tech Entrepreneur (06:44) Lessons from His First Business (13:19) The Pains and Gains of Having a Co-founder (14:59) Starting a Company, Again? (17:24) Cultural Differences in Entrepreneurship (19:57) Tough Truths About Building a Startup (22:44) The Health Scan That Birthed Prenuvo (28:33) Dealing with Investor Rejection (35:11) The Future of Healthcare with Prenuvo (36:35) A Surprising Fact About Andrew (37:56) His Hack for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Andrew Lacy is an Australian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and founder/CEO of Prenuvo, a pioneering health tech company using whole-body imaging for early disease detection, including cancer. He envisions a future where healthcare is more affordable and accessible, and where people embrace health screenings as tools for long-term wellness. Andrew also co-founded Tapulous, a key player in the early iPhone app ecosystem, later acquired by Disney. He has held leadership roles at McKinsey and Disney. Connect with Andrew: Andrew's Website: https://andrewlacy.com/ Andrew's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewllacy/ 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
Today, I am going to talk about an incredible personal experience with a revolutionary healthcare technology that left me so impressed I simply had to share it. And my guest today is the man at the forefront of this technology. Andrew Lacy is the CEO of Prenuvo, a company on a mission to shift healthcare from reactive to proactive. Prenuvo provides comprehensive whole body MRI scans in a mere 60 minutes, without using contrast dies and without radiation.Prenuvo's groundbreaking technology goes beyond traditional imaging, capturing over 2,000 images during the scan and analyzing them for more than 500 medical conditions. Data shows that 1 in 20 Prenuvo patients have received a potentially life-saving diagnosis.I myself learned about a few smaller issues my body is currently dealing with that enable me to course correct and nip them in the bud, before they potentially become bigger issues down the road. We are going to take a deep dive into the world of cutting-edge diagnostics and the incredible potential of artificial intelligence in transforming the landscape of healthcare with Andrew.Andrew is a true visionary and a product technologist at heart with extensive experience taking transformative digital products from conception to launch in startups and large corporations. He co-founded Tapulous, a company that pioneered the iPhone mobile revenues mechanics that now underpin the app store. Their product Tap Tap Revenge was the most popular iOs game in the world in 2010. Tapulous was acquired by the Walt Disney Company as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2010.Prior to Tapulous, Andrew was at ZapTravel, where he built and commercialized Alexa and Siri-like vertical search interfaces that predated the launch of those. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford and a JD from University of Melbourne.Prepare to have your understanding of healthcare transformed, just as it happened to me. This episode is a game-changer for those who are currently managing health conditions and for those who want to take preventative action and have agency over their health.And we have an incredible offer for those in our audience who are interested in taking action and getting a whole body scan: use the code SUPERHUMANIZE to get a $300 discount. For online bookings use the link www.prenuvo.com/superhumanize and for over the phone bookings simply mention SUPERHUMANIZE.In this episode with Andrew, you'll discover:-Andrews' "Why" in creating Prenuvo...04:30-How Prenuvo differs from traditional X-rays, CT and MRI tech...07:00-Ariane recounts her own experience of using the Prenuvo scan...09:30-The role of Prenuvo in anti-aging and detecting diseases earlier than ever...16:00-Patients who prevented fatal illness by taking agency over their bodies...20:30-Preventive health: not just for the super fit and elite biohackers...26:40-Making this new tech as accessible as possible...29:00-A growing number of physicians are incorporating Prenuvo into their annual physicals...30:00-The critical role of artificial intelligence in the newest body scans...33:30-The biggest challenges to overcome in developing this new tech...38:15-Andrew's best personal practice...44:44-And much more...Resources mentioned:Prenuvo (Use discount code SUPERHUMANIZE for a $300 discount!)Powerful Prenuvo Patient TestimonialGuest's social handles:FacebookTwitterP.S. If you enjoy this episode and feel it helps to elevate your life, please...
Today I am speaking with Andrew Lacy, CEO and Founder of Prenuvo. I recently had a Prenuvo full body MRI and in this podcast, I speak in detail about my experience and Andrew shares Prenuvo's history and game changing technology. If you'd like to learn more about Prenuvo or book a scan you can do so here, and use my code KAYLA for $200 off a scan. About Andrew: Andrew is the founder & CEO of Prenuvo, a transformative healthcare company growing fast across North America. Simply put, Prenuvo provides members with incredible peace of mind about their health. Prenuvo's core innovative is a one hour advanced medical screening using MRI that can detect solid cancer at Stage 1 and 500 other medical conditions. Their customers come from all walks of life, from Silicon Valley executives to people who feel let down by the existing medical system.Prior to Prenuvo, Andrew has had extensive experience taking digital products from conception to launch in his own startups (Tapulous, Zap) and large corporates (Disney, Lebara and various large banks and insurance companies). His experience across a range on industries helps him to bring fresh perspectives, to appropriately challenge established practices and to bring breakthrough thinking to under-innovated spaces. ** see work experience below for more color **MBA from Stanford University, JD in Law and Bachelor of Economics from University of Melbourne, AustraliaSpecialties: C-level executive, general management and advisory; business and corporate strategy; digital transformation; innovation; new product development and strategy; team-building and culture; customer acquisition; attachment and retention (growth hacking); consumer insights; digital insights, analytics and business intelligence; engineering (node, PHP, iOS, Scala); ROI-driven performance marketing, revenue optimization, pricing and monetization; business operations; web, mobile apps, chatbots and voice-based products
My guest this week is composer and producer Dren McDonald who has done everything from experimental indie rock to video game music to string quartet chamber music to film and VR animation soundtracks. He has worked with game studios and publishers such as Valve Corporation, Ubisoft, Glu Mobile, DeNA/Hasbro, Romero Games, Zynga, Tapulous, and others, and he's been nominated for awards for his soundtrack, music and sound design work 16 times and has won 5 times. Dren also created music and audio designs for AR and VR experiences at Facebook, and taught at University of California, Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has released several original game soundtrack releases on Nerdtracks Recordings, as well as instrumental recordings for Appearing Records. During the interview we spoke about how he got into video games, directing voice overs for games, how sound design is different for games than film, working on AR audio for Facebook, his new album built around hundreds of guitar tracks, and much more. Find out more about Dren and his new album at DrenMcDonald.com. I spoke with Dren via Zoom from his studio in the Bay area. On the intro I'll take a look at the 5 things that musicians should know about the brain, and an AI for music primer. var podscribeEmbedVars = { epId: 86177374, backgroundColor: 'white', font: undefined, fontColor: undefined, speakerFontColor: undefined, height: '600px', showEditButton: false, showSpeakers: true, showTimestamps: true };
Patrick Lee was born in the states—born in LA—grew up in Maryland, went to school out in UC Berkeley.It took him nearly 10 years to graduate from college because he was too busy building companies on the side and the traumatizing years of his company.Patrick is the co-founder of Hobo Labs, a mobile gaming company. But he’s best known for being one of the founders of Rotten Tomatoes. He’s a very seasoned, serial entrepreneur. He’s been through multiple market bubbles, crashes, and company exits.The co-founder and the former CEO of Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com), a leading entertainment website focused on movie reviews and news and one of the top 700 most trafficked sites in the world. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded six startups across three countries (US, China, Hong Kong), with four in the intersection of technology & entertainment. For the last decade, Patrick has been mentoring tech founders and been involved in various arts & humanitarian projects. Holly Liu studied at the UC Berkely and at the University of California, LOS Angeles.Liu is the co-founded mobile gaming company KABAM in 2006; maker of the games: Kingdoms of Camelot The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth and Marvel Contest of Champions.In January 2017, the majority of KABAM’s assets were acquired by Netmarble, South Korea’s largest mobile gaming company. Following her exit from Kabam, Liu took on a role as a visiting partner at Y Combinator, an accelerator providing seeded funding to nearly 2,000 startups with a combined value of over $80 billion.She has been named one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming”, Forbes’ “12 Women in Gaming to Watch.” and Forbes - "10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch from Google Ventures' Portfolio Companies".She was also named by Inc as a Top 10 female founder unicorn.In 2018, she received the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Technology Entrepreneurship Award and she was featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes. Bart Decrem is a Belgian-born, Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur. He was SVP of mobile games at Disney until January, and cofounded mobile-game developer Tapulous. He was the head of marketing at the Mozilla Foundation until the launch of Firefox in 2004.In 2003-2004, Decrem headed marketing and business affairs for the Mozilla Foundation. He coordinated Firefox marketing activities, including branding, the Firefox 1.0 launch and the creation of Spread Firefox, the community marketing effort for Firefox. He also headed up partnerships with Google, Yahoo, Amazon and Mozilla.From July 2010 until June 2013 he was SVP and General Manager for Disney Mobile Games, the group behind the smartphone hits Where’s My Water, Temple Run: Oz and Where’s My Mickey.Decrem was recognized as one of the fifty most creative people in business in 2009 by Fast Company and one of the 10 most creative people in the Music Biz by Fast Company. He has also been featured in Advertising Age's "2010 Creativity 50" by Creativity.
Ep. 49. On today's show, John talks about "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," why Pat Wilson's love of his iPhone helped lead to Christmas With Weezer, and why this project made him think about, of all things, the Weezer Snuggie. LISTEN: 1. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" on Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube LYRICS: 1. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" at Genius.com MORE INFO: 1. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" at Weezerpedia 2. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" at Wikipedia 3. Christmas With Weezer at Weezerpedia 4. The Weezer Snuggie Commercial at YouTube 5. Previous episodes of the Christmas With Weezer mini-series: We Wish You A Merry Christmas | O Come All Ye Faithful | O Holy Night | The First Noel
Cristina Cordova leads the Payments Partnerships and Platform Partnerships teams at Stripe, the new standard in online payments that handles billions of dollars of business every year for forward thinking businesses around the world. To date, Stripe has raised over $680m in funding from some of the very best in the business including Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Thrive, CapitalG, Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global. As for Cristina, at Stripe she manages partnerships with some of the biggest global players including Apple Pay, Google Pay, WeChat Pay and more and has also held roles such as Head of Diversity and Inclusion and Manager of Partner Engineering. Prior to Stripe, Cristina was Head of Business Development @ Pulse (acq by LinkedIn) and was in the marketing team at Tapulous (acq by Disney). In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Cristina made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be Head of Partnerships at one of the fastest growing startups in the world, Stripe? Does Cristina agree with the common notion that certain people are destined for certain stages of a company’s life? How can one determine whether some has the ability to scale or not? What are the leading indicators? What have been some of Cristina’s biggest lessons in scaling from 28 at Stripe to 1,300? What does Cristina believe is the key to success when it comes to adapting to new roles? What worked? What did not work? Where does Cristina see many go wrong? How should employees think about title both when joining and when at a high growth company? What is the right way for them to think about and approach equity? What does Cristina believe is so special about partnerships with early stage startups? How can partnerships be fundamentally dangerous for early stage companies? How can startups determine when is the right time to engage with partners? What are the key questions and terms startups should focus on when partnering with incumbents? What makes Cristina lean in on a partnership for Stripe? What does Cristina believe is the right way to communicate this excitement and set expectations? For the larger player, what does the optimal agreement look like? What are the commonalities in the reasons that Cristina passes on potential partnerships? Cristina’s 60 Second SaaStr: What does Cristina know now that she wishes she had known at the beginning? Who is killing it in SaaS partnerships today? When is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Read the full transcript on our blog. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Cristina Cordova
InspiredStartups.com : Entrepreneurs Talks with Founders Sharing Their Real Startup Stories
These investors knew not to 'miss mobile' and many of them have made the transition to be early adopters on the venture side. Hear their thoughts and opinions on how the EU investment model shakes out in the next few years. Will the EU fall flat or will they see more Tapulous and Angry Birds on the horizon?Tony Fish, Investor, Author and Entrepreneur, SBT Venture CapitalBoard Director with innovation and high growth experience cutting across mobile, web and digital. Having founded, co-founded and sold a number of businesses over the past 25 years, I remain passionate about highly disruptive tech which is fast scaling and at an early stage. Tony has a style which is based on fast iteration, trust, deep involvement, clear decision making, robust financials, transparency and strong open governance controls.Paul Miller, Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures Paul's responsibilities are the strategy and partnerships. He was previously co-founder and CEO of education technology startup School of Everything as well as working for the think tanks Demos and Forum for the Future.Benjamin Joffe, General Partner, HAXLR8RHAXLR8R ('HAX') is the first accelerator building 'lean hardware startups'. An expert on startup ecosystems with 14 years experience in China, Japan, Korea and USA, he has been invited to speak in over 200 events across 23 countries including at TEDx, SXSW, LeWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt, GMIC, Stanford, Berkeley and INSEAD. Prior to HAX, Benjamin founded the consultancy Plus Eight Star Ltd., and worked with clients such as Microsoft, Tumblr and Harvard Business School to identify innovative services in Asia's digital space. Benjamin is also an angel investor in Asia-based and hardware startups.
This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni's beautiful offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Mike Lee, Appsterdam founder, has worked at Alaska Airlines, Delicious Monster (with Wil Shipley), Apple, and is now Chief Lemur at New Lemurs. This episode is sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it's a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code BMF. (BMF -- Be My Friend — is Mike Lee's Twitter handle.) You notice how people with a lot of domains are always talking about Hover? It's because of their excellent service. Take a look. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It's high level — you can get more done with less work. It's also deep: write JavaScript in your favorite text editor. Test with mocha. Deploy with git. Things we mention, in order of appearance (mostly): Kurt Cobain Grunge Honolulu Hawaii University of Puget Sound Tacoma Puget Sound Alaska Airlines SeaTac Lead ramp agent Skilled labor 1993 Choose Your Own Adventure DHTML Flash Web Standards Project XML Java C# DotNet Macintosh PC Microsoft Windows Windows 95 Mac OS X Terrorist watch list WWDC JavaOne Objective-C Xcode 2005 2001 Renoir Hotel WWDC Student Scholarship Wil Shipley Wil Shipley's Speech on the Indie Dream Devry FedEx Core Data Bill Bumgarner Federal Way I-5 Delicious Library Apple Design Award Campus Bash Denny's Omni Group Rumpus Room Apple Store Barnes & Noble Lucas Newman Mike Matas Knoxville Samurai Yoko Ono Seattle Xcoders Gus Mueller Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Dave Winer Superman IL 7 John Geleynse Lemur Chemistry Cabel Sasser “Hi, I Make Macintosh Software” T-shirt altWWDC Debug podcast Tapulous Tap Tap Revenge iFart DTS IL 3 Caffè Macs Rands Matt Drance Michael Jurewitz
Mike Lee of the New Lemurs talks to Guy and Rene about airline Java, Delicious Library, Tapulous and the early days of iOS, United Lemurs, VC mistakes, the Obama and Apple Store apps, the Appsterdam project, New Lemurs, and dressing like a space pirate. Show notes - [Delicious Library](http://www.delicious-monster.com) - [Tapulous](https://www.facebook.com/taptaprevenge) - [Obama '08](http://mantia.me/portfolio/obama/) - [Apple Store app](https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8) - [New Lemurs](http://le.mu.rs) Guests Mike Lee of New Lemurs Hosts Guy English of Kicking Bear Rene Ritchie of iMore.com Feedback Yell at us via the Twitter accounts above (or the same names on ADN). Loudly.
Itâ??s episode six of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg had some disagreements with Skype and bringing in their scheduled guest Andy Quayle (but check out his sites!), but Chachi is on hand to talk about the news and notes from a slow news week, as we talk about Apple's recent iPhone and App Store woes, Netflix's new deal with Relativity Media, Tapulous, Best Buy hating cute bears, and a small discussion about our shrinking computers. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter,Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube and Blip.tv! This weekâ??s Audible Pick: The Way We're Working Isn't Working: How Intense Focus and Frequent Renewal Fuel Great Performance By Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes Get this book free at www.audiblepodcast.com/sorgatronmedia
Today in iOS - The Unofficial iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Podcast
This is Episode 109 of the Today in iPhone Podcast, please visit www.todayiniphone.com. Links Mentioned in this Episode:AFP: Apple hits back against Nokia in patent rowApple Easing Up on iPhone Developers? Mac RumorsApp Store Apps Finally Gets Prettier PagesiPhone users suffering 'Stockholm Syndrome' - 9 to 5 MacDaring Fireball: Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?iPhone Owners Suffer Stockholm Syndrome, AT&T is Actually AwesomeDigitimes - Apple Looking to Have Record iPhone Quarter: ReportAT&T Takes the Fall for the iPhone's Glitches - NYTimes.com64GB 4th Gen iPhone Next Year? | The iPhone BlogAppleInsider | Retailers want in on Apple's iPod touch POS systemAppolicious Lands $2 Million For iPhone App Directory Smule raises $8M more | VentureBeatComScore: iPhone overtakes Windows Mobile use for the first time in USAT&T Downplays Talk of Tiered Pricing - Mac RumorsProPrompter Teleprompter Review - AppmodoInternational Performance Seen Driving iPhone and iPod Touch GrowthiPhone and iPod Touch See International SurgeiPhone beats Droid in Manhattan speed tests | VentureBeatSmall iPhone developer Tapulous sees big success| ReutersBBC News - Vodafone to sell iPhone in UK in January 2010Vodafone opens pre-registration for the iPhoneApps and Software Mentioned in this Episode:Tii AppMusical LightsWord OdditiesPocket AdderRed ConquestBlue DefenseiVideoCameraDragon DictationMore BirthdaysOccasions
Bart Decrem, founder and CEO of arguably the biggest iPhone App brand, Tapulous, gave an incredibly passionate and honest talk about the lessons he's learned running startups from Firefox to Flock and now Tapulous, makers of the top iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge.