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They already have in several of the things you listed. Online Education? Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsight, Kahn Academy, Youtube for crying out loud. Healthcare?
by hpoe 7y ago
They already have in several of the things you listed.
Online Education? Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsight, Kahn Academy, Youtube for crying out loud.
Healthcare? - Healthtech is becoming a big thing, I had the opportunity to interview at a company that is currently working on a private health cloud where they aggregate all of the info about you, your smart watch, your phone, etc. (Note: That you choose and opt into) to make it available to determine the best outcomes for you personally and help the Dr. working with you practice individualized medicine.
You list other things, but hospitals are being changed by technology at an amazing pace, the fact that now during a pandemic I don't have to leave my home to see my PCP, you think that was the burdened bloated Hospital beracuracy that came up with that?
You then list roads and bridges, but the point is that yes, VCs and entrepenuers could figure out how to solve those too given time and a enough freedom, even we can't see it right now, it may be because our vision is just too limited to see what could be, that's what makes entrepreneurs, real entrepreneurs, different they are visionary.
- bhupy 7y agoA couple examples of big infrastructure projects funded by private investment (mostly private equity): Brightline / Virgin Trains USA [1] Texas Central Railway[2] which aims to introduce Shinkansen-class high speed rail connecting Dallas and Houston [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Trains_USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Trains_USA [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Central_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Central_Railway
- ryan93 7y agoHow is a healthcare app going to replace surgery, radiation or intensive care?
- hpoe 7y agoHow did Amazon replace you reading a book in your house? It didn't alter the underlying fundamentals but it changed the way we think about it, and again you miss my point, most of us can't figure out things like that, we can't see how we would do that. Some people can, make it so they have the freedom to build and create and they can do things you've never dreamed of. Also a healthcare app won't replace those things but robots, computer vision, and ML could. Or they could make it so that a Dr. instead of doing 8 surgeries a day could do 80, or a Radiation machine that is totally self managed. You pop in it runs the test then it can interpret results with a 99.99% accuracy. There are lots of ways tech can augment and improve healthcare.
- jdminhbg 7y agoWhat percentage of the healthcare economy is surgery, radiation, or intensive care?
- bhl 7y agoKhanAcademy is a non-profit org and is not VC-funded. It is arguably also the most successful company in online education.