About 7-10 years ago I tech-MBA-style consulted with a half dozen medical scan reading via machine learning startups in Southern California. In each case, I not

About 7-10 years ago I tech-MBA-style consulted with a half dozen medical scan reading via machine learning startups in Southern California. In each case, I noticed the CEOs being overwhelmed by their investors, loosing control as soon as their potential was validated, and sold to giant healthcare corps, most often against the protests of the founders. In each of these situations, the startups were working with large offshore teams annotating medical scans for their ML training. I was usually hired to write a prospectus or similar investment document, so my exposure to each startup was brief. But in every case, the founding team kind of were knocked off their feet by the aggression of their investors. I checked back with two of the CEOs about two years ago, and both of their startups were shutdown after acquisition.