Making Prevention More Profitable Than Treatment | Venture Doctors

Farzad Mostashari spent roughly a decade in public service before he ever ran a business: first at the NYC Department of Health then as the National Coordinator for Health IT, where he helped move the nation’s doctors onto electronic records. The number he cared about most, blood pressure control, did not budge. It was then that Farzad began to build Aledade, which partners with thousands of independent primary care practices and ties their success to whether patients stay healthy. Galym, Brenton, and Farzad get into why American healthcare can pay well for treating a stroke but has no billing code for preventing one, whether AI is about to repeat the pattern that digitization set, and what a company owns once the underlying technology stops being hard to build. Farzad explains why he thinks founders in their forties are underestimated, why Aledade trained its own model on screenshots of other companies’ software, and why he believes the real differentiator in healthcare AI is trust rather than capability. Chapters: 0:00 Why There's No Billing Code for Preventing a Stroke 7:52 Public Health Surveillance to the National EHR Rollout 15:01 Will AI Just Serve Fee for Service? 19:25 Inside Aledade and Its Three Flywheels 23:00 When AI Becomes a Commodity, Trust Is an Edge 30:59 Rapid Fire on Bow Ties and Overrated AI Stay in touch: www.lsvp.com X: https://twitter.com/lightspeedvp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightspeed/ The content here does not constitute tax, legal, business or investment advice or an offer to provide such advice, should not be construed as advocating the purchase or sale of any security or investment or a recommendation of any company, and is not an offer, or solicitation of an offer, for the purchase or sale of any security or investment product. The views expressed by our guests do not necessarily represent the views of Lightspeed. For more details please see lsvp.com/legal.