[HN Gopher] Haven, Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt ...
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Haven, Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is
disbanding
Author : admiralspoo
Score : 30 points
Date : 2021-01-04 17:29 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.cnbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.cnbc.com)
| tootie wrote:
| Maybe I was dreaming, but I actually thought this could be a real
| disruptor. I was a big fan of Atul Gawande as a journalist, but I
| guess he wasn't enough to make this concept work.
| admiralspoo wrote:
| Covid is already disrupting health care in ways they perhaps
| envisioned, so perhaps the project's plans became redundant.
| ApicalDendrite wrote:
| I interviewed there a couple of years ago. I was really excited
| going into the interview because I'm a big fan of Atul Gawande
| and I thought there was huge potential for a transformative
| impact. But when I talked to them it was clear that they didn't
| have a clear vision of how specifically they were going to
| transform healthcare. I got the sense that the engineers were
| just messing around waiting for the healthcare and product people
| to tell them what to build. They clearly had a lot of talent and
| resources and I'm sad they weren't able to make it work.
| Nelkins wrote:
| I would love to hear the inside scoop on why this failed.
| DIVx0 wrote:
| I'd be curious to know some more details. The article says
| turnover was a problem at all levels, but why?
|
| I am in this same industry and I'm really interested to learn
| what a massively well connected and funded startup discovered
| that made it better to toss in the towel.
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