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Andrew Lacy

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first: 2023-12-07
most recent: 2023-12-07
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“We have some people that play comedy, and we've learned actually that that's not a great choice because they start laughing and then the images of the head are not quite as clear.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't see a reason why not every single adult in America shouldn't do one of these scans every year or two. In fact, to just screen for cancer in the US using the techniques that we use, probably to scan every person in the US every two years will cost something like $60 billion. We spend $130 billion on late stage cancer drugs every year, let alone the obviously huge impact of people passing away from this horrible disease. So the economics already there for these types of preventative screening interventions to be hopefully adopted everywhere in the US and not only what saved lives but should save money for the healthcare system.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have hundreds of people that are working hard so that one day this is standard of care everywhere. That means that there's a facility down the road for you, just like there might be a Starbucks and you turn up, you get maybe a 10-15 minute scan. And probably by the end of the scan, we already know if you have something that we have to walk you through or not. And if not, then you go about your life for another year. And that's a world where we've redefined the definition of disease from scary to maintenance. And people don't ever have to suffer through their lives not knowing what's going on under the skin.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's correct. And to give you an example of how that helps, the average MRI procedure about 10 to 15% of people can't get through it without pulling the escape hatch.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They'll get a clean. Maybe they need a filling, but the chances of needing a root canal is pretty remote. And so we have to, we exist in this ecosystem where disease is defined in such a scary way that we go out of our way to make sure that the visit itself does not trigger any of that fear. So our facilities don't have any white walls. We don't have anyone wearing lab coats or medical outfits. And all of this is, frankly, because of the fact that we operate in this ecosystem where disease is scary.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And it's not just because that's how I would like to be treated. Actually, it's because of something that's very fundamental to our healthcare system, which is going to a healthcare facility is scary. Yeah. And it's scary because we have a healthcare system that's very reactive. And if we're going to get diagnosed with anything, it's going to be by definition advanced. And scary. And we are building a business where we want to diagnose things early. We sort of, we want to be like the routine dental checkup, but for the rest of your body. And if you go to the dentist every six months, most of those people are not afraid to go because”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Eventually, someone told someone who is a celebrity and has a big social voice and they come in and then they'll tell their friends that also happen to be celebrities or people with a large reach. And that's a large part of the reason why awareness of these scans has really taken off this year.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think my enthusiasm is informed by the patients that I meet every day where we have a positive impact on their lives. In some ways, although what we're doing is very innovative, we have a really, really simple approach to marketing, which is let's just provide the most accurate clinical diagnostic screening exam. And if we do that, people will tell other people and then the business will grow. And I'm sure your listeners will have probably heard about us from perhaps celebrities that might have talked about us. Now, a lot of this came about just because we opened in LA and we were doing a great job.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, Andrew, I mean, it sounds like from your perspective, obviously, I know, I can hear the frustration in your voice about the pushback from the medical establishment, right? But when you're sort of going up at 35,000 feet and looking down at this, are you telling yourself this happens with every medical technology? It's always happened. And we know in the end we're going to be vindicated because this is going to help people discover diseases way out in advance. And it will be embraced over time.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Previous attempts to do this with MRI used what we call non diagnostic imaging, which were as poor quality, fuzzy pictures. And it was most radiologists didn't want to read it in the first place and certainly didn't want to provide a second opinion.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“While we built the service in a way that that's an option. So it's really important that the images that we take are clinical diagnostic quality and recognizable to any radiologist who specializes in a certain part of the body. So our head images are equivalent to what you would get if you had a dedicated head MRI. And that enables the potential for a second or third opinion. And if you have something that's very concerning, I don't see why you may not want to get a second or third opinion because now we're no longer looking at you through a screening context. We're looking at you, your body through a diagnostic lens.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you think that once somebody gets a full body scan, it's worthwhile for them to also get a second read by maybe a radiologist they may know? Or is the information from your radiologist so good that that's not necessary?”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our goal as a company is one day that these are sub $500 scan. It takes probably about half an hour or less. And they're available most everywhere.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And for sure, mostone that considers the South a biohacker has done one of these scams. But the single biggest category are people that might have had cancer and worried that it's coming back, or they have a strong family history of cancer or aneurysm or disease. And for them not being screened is obviously affecting their quality of life. The second biggest category are people that have actual symptoms but they're indeterminate. They might have headaches or abdominal pain, particularly women that might have abdominal or pelvic pain and they don't know what's causing it. And the health system is not doing a good enough job diagnosing the condition. And as a result, they're sort of without peace of mind and they come to us to get peace of mind or to get treatment a lot earlier by diagnosing the condition faster.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's talk about who's using the service and then how we're working on costs. So there's an incorrect assumption that most people make, which is the types of people that are really attracted to this are sort of the health and lifestyle optimizers.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, let's talk about access, right? And this is not your job. You are in business. You're not running a charity, but ultimately you know one of the critiques of this is that this is only for wealthy elites who can afford to pay $1,000 to $3,000 to get this done. And so it's not accessible to most people. Presumably, I mean, it's not in your business interest to keep this expensive, that it's in your interest in the long term to make this cheaper.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Machines are custom built for us. We don't build them. We're not MRI manufacturers. As you mentioned, there's only a few companies that do this. So we partner with Two companies to produce their machines that we use.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The machines are different, so you can't do this on regular imaging. You do really need special hardware and software. And that's what makes it unique.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And are the machines, I mean, there are now, I mean, you guys really have pioneered this, now there are competitors, presumably the machines aren't that different, but what differentiates what you guys offer? Is it that there's different technology?”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We built a highly optimized business for whole body screening. So we have one radiologist that looks at the entire body Trained in identifying what they see in every single organ. And then we have subspecialties that can chime in if there's something abnormal and they need help. Importantly, we believe can yield much more useful insights because our bodies are not a collection of parts, they're a system. And we can learn a lot about how, for example, your heart is working by looking at your brain. We can tell a lot about even things that we can't see with MRI, like blood pressure or diabetes by looking at the effect on the liver. And so by looking at you as a system, we believe that we can provide a more accurate picture of your overall health.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, alright, let's talk about Price point. I mean, it's not cheap, but if you think about it from a holistic perspective, it's a pretty good deal. You can get a full body scan for under $3,000. And if you were to do this and you had cancer, like God, the costs are astronomically higher. How can you, one of the questions I had from a friend of mine who is very prominent doctor in the Bay Area was like, I don't understand how they can do this at this price point. Just the radiologist, the cost, the radiologist to read these scans is going to be so high. Are they using radiologists in the Philippines or in countries where the costs are just so much lower? How do you do that?”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And oftentimes, what a physician might say, especially might say, is, well, a lot of people might have these problems and never experience pain. And that's actually true. But we can still figure this out by looking at your spine. Some people have what's called a congenerally narrow spinal canal. That means there's not a lot of extra room. The spinal canal for anything other than the spinal cord. And those people, when they start getting these slippages, they're the people that will experience pain, you know, 10, 15 years down the track.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, as I say, seeing changes in my cervical spine has led me to go to physical therapy and also to take mobility exercises really seriously because I've been so focused on cardio strength training that I've neglected stretching, but seeing this early, I can see where this will go.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think one of the really fascinating things that we have discovered as we started to image more and more patients is we can see oftentimes a very early stages of chronic disease 10, 20 years before you might ever feel symptoms. And spine is a really good example of this. When we open in Silicon Valley and we got patients that were in their 20s coming in for a scan, we could show the spine to a radiologist and ask them to guess the age of that person. And they might guess that they're in their 40s. And longevity is so closely linked to mobility. Once you lose your mobility, you don't live much longer. And so this is a life-changing insight to get early on when you can do something about it that's essential.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think more and more this is being found because of iPhones. People leaning over reading their iPhones, it's screwing with our necks. Even sitting here in my studio, and that actually prompted me to go to physical therapy and to start a new regimen to try and deal with this because I don't want to have compressed nerves in my neck because it can affect your mobility, you can start to feel it in your arms. And I'm not an old guy. So that was super helpful. It actually, I actually love that.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I think it's an opinion. I'm not aware of any clinical evidence cataloging this vast quantity of benign tumors that we have in our bodies. But it's also an argument that makes sense when you start to consider these interventions at a population level, because at a population level, we're all statistic. But at the individual level, we only have one life. You know, if we lose that one, we don't get a do-over. And so the way we might make decisions as individuals is fundamentally different because of that fact.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the number of benign tumors in our bodies so outnumber the number of aggressive tumors. And so the concern is that it's going to result in overly aggressive treatment when none is necessary. And that's, you know, I don't think that's an illegitimate criticism.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. And I think there's kind of two levels of evidence. Level one is is there enough evidence to inform that this is a helpful technique for a given patient? And here we can talk to the types of things we see and how early we see them and the sorts of risks and how impactful they might be on a given patient. The second level of evidence is can we show that there is a reduction all causes mortality over the long run for people doing these screenings routinely. And we're working to collect that evidence, but it's implicit in the nature of the question that that's going to take a long time to prove.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That makes sense because I have to admit before I got one, I told my doctor and friends or doctors, and they were all rolling their eyes. And I kind of felt like an idiot. Is this just a waste of money and time? But I went through it. And so that makes sense. You need to convince them that this is worthwhile for people who want to do it.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, I care because patients trust their physicians. And if you are interested in getting one of these scans and you go to physician and your physician provides an uninformed opinion that discourages you from doing it, then you have potentially missed out on an early diagnosis or greater insights into your health. That's why we invest so much time in educating physicians.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't fundamentally understand it. Oftentimes we reach out and ask for them to come in and visit a clinic and or meet with our radiologists. But unfortunately they don't. People don't always take us up on those offers. We've made thousands of potentially life-saving early cancer diagnoses or aneurysm diagnoses. We've provided a lot of clarity into very early stages of chronic disease that if caught later, significantly affect both outcomes and costs for the health system. So I guess I'm a little bit surprised that there isn't more enthusiasm and inquisitiveness by the health system at large when I think everyone would acknowledge that we have a health system that is just tremendously reactive and is not really meeting our needs.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“100%. Yeah. And oftentimes when we hear criticism, we're not even 100% certain that the physician is referring to CT screening or referring to something that they might have seen elsewhere. These are very new techniques that we're using on highly specialized hardware. It's very different to what might be available out there. And you really need firsthand knowledge to be able to form an opinion that is informed. And there's no one that's really spoken out against these technologies that actually has experienced it firsthand. In fact, most of those people bring their family members in and then start referring their patients.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I want to point out some important distinctions, which is a lot of radiologists oppose this, certainly around CT scans, which this is not. CT scans, that's radiation, you're exposed to radiation, MRIs, it's just magnets. You're not exposed to any radiation. So it's totally safe for the human right. That the distinction, right? I mean, just to make that clear.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And I think the statements that were made actually have also been made about PAPSMIR between when it was invented and when it was adopted, mammograms. So this is a very, very natural point in the journey from a potentially breakthrough screening technology to the point at which it inevitably is adopted. And I hope it won't take 30 years.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, most of those statements are along the following lines. There is not sufficient evidence to show that these are Ready for population wides And the problem is that these statements are being made. This is a scientifically accurate statement that's being made in a consumer forum where it is misunderstood the way that you did, which is that this is not helpful for the individual. And that's not true. You know, a lack of comprehensive, large scale, long-term evidence is not.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think it's a bit disappointing. And actually, I don't think you've fairly characterized what they say. And this is an important point. Fine.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Once you open the clinic in San Francisco, you begin to attract interest and then funding. So let's kind of dive into what you got here. Full disclosure, I did one. I paid for it. I did it a couple months ago. And I thought it was actually incredible. But I'm not here to endorse it. I'm here to ask you about the science behind it and also the criticism behind it. This is a voluntary thing that people can do it. Ranges in cost, I think it starts in the $500 range or a little bit more for a part of your body all the way to almost $3,000 if you want a full body scan. So it's not cheap, but you get this very comprehensive look inside your body. Let's start with the opposition. There is an overwhelming amount of opposition to what you're doing from the medical establishment. I have not found really any official endorsement of what you're doing. And in fact, many public health”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. And what's really unique about these scans is when you come in for a scan, we scan your liver something like 13 or 14 times. And we're actually filtering for different tissue composition. We're filtering for blood, fat, proteinaceous tissue. And there's one really, really special filter that you need to have very, very good hardware to do, which is a filter for hardness. And what we know about cancer is, well, not everything that feels hard is a cancer. All solid humans are harder than the surrounding tissue. And so it enables us to be a lot more sensitive for very early stage cancer. And that's why the vast majority of the cancer that we catch is actually stage one or localized to the organ of origin. So we're able to do what women do for their breasts, which is feel for lumps. We can do that digitally with these machines through the entire body, including the parts that you can't feel very well yourself, and be able to do that at a quality that enables us to detect these lesions very, very early.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, so you start this clinic, and the idea, the promise is, and we know this, by the way, this is not what you're saying. We know this from science, that the earlier you catch cancer, the more likely, cancer is an early detection problem. If we can detect all cancers in stage one, you can cure most of them. The challenge is that most of the time cancer is not detected until it's symptomatic, and by that point you're in stage three or four. The idea here is that a full body scan could possibly detect diseases in their early phases, and that will enable a patient to deal with them earlier. Is that right?”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the time has got a lot faster. So, the initial scan we did was an hour and a half, which was still much quicker than three or four hours, but not quick enough for people to do this routinely. Do this really through a couple of things. First, we have hardware that's custom built for fast whole body diagnostic quality imaging. Field strength that we use is a 1.5 Tesla magnet, but we put in a sort of a Ferrari engine so that it can run a lot faster. The second is that we really understand the physics of MRI. And we've spent a lot of time tailoring our acquisition protocols to balance speed and image quality and heat that we put into the body during the scan.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's talk about the technology for a moment because you mentioned that traditionally people get an MRI in a certain part of their body. And I believe full body MRI scans can take three, four hours. You basically have machines that are, you know, I don't imagine too many companies make these machines, GE and others, make these MRI machines. But you are promising a full body scan in an hour. So how are you able to do that, especially given that you had a bank loan and a little bit of money that you put in?”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct, I put money in and then we raised some money from a bank, actually, believe it or not. In order to bootstrap this clinic in Silicon Valley. Now, of course, when we're in the Silicon Valley, a lot of VCs who were interested in the field of health came in for scans. And there's something about seeing the technology firsthand that's really, really hard to communicate through a pitch deck.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“100% a completely different business, but in some ways it's soured in the minds of many physicians, the potential for screening asymptomatic patients. And so every VC fund either had an MD as a partner or had a personal physician that they would ask for advice. And universally, I imagine at the time these physicians were saying this makes no sense.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the primary reason is because People had tried doing screening in the past 20 or 30 years ago, you could go to a shopping mall and there were businesses that had CT machines.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You struggle to raise money at the beginning. Why? Because I'm thinking, this is a no-brainer, you're going to a bunch of investors and you're saying, hey, people are going to do this. They're going to want MRIs. These machines are expensive. They cost millions of dollars, but they're going to pay for themselves in a matter of months because we're going to have people get scanned their full body scans. Why was there skepticism? What did the investors say to you initially?”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think there was really two big challenges in building the company. The first was operational, which is to say the single biggest assumption underpinning all radiology today is that you only ever look at one part of the body at a time. And this is a throwback from 150 years ago when we just had x ray plate that they put behind your body to take a picture of what was happening inside. And so there's a huge operational challenge in overcoming that. And there's many things that needed to get built from the ground up. And that involved a lot of time, money, and as you mentioned, radiologists who believed in what we were doing. The second challenge was really a mindset challenge. We went out to investors and we really struggled to raise money to start executing on this vision”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct, and in fact, there's two really interesting and impactful use cases. The first is to understand if there's anything going on under the skin that might be life-threatening. And then the second, which is less obvious, but in some ways way more powerful, is to have very detailed pictures of the inside of your body so that we all as individuals can understand the impact of the way we're living our lives on what's happening under the skin. And as humans, we're really bad at making decisions today for some sort of theoretical payoff in the future. And this is why, for example, on cigarette packets, they have pictures of sort of ugly diseased lungs is they hope to shock us into making changes to our lifestyle. We scan every employee in our company, and we've had a few people that were smokers, and there's nothing that encourages people to quit more than seeing actual pictures of their own lungs. And the inflammation that smoking's causing. And so we do that writ large across the entire body.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, like most sort of scientists, Raj really enjoys and was great at fundamental research and really understanding the physics of MRI. And he had a small, I guess, like side business in doing these scans for people I heard about it from word of mouth. But it was clear that the opportunity was much bigger and he needed someone, obviously, to partner with that understood or had experience in scaling up businesses.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There was this potential screening use case for MRI machines that was a thousand times bigger than the diagnostic use case. So I had that iPhone moment again, but in an entirely different field. And I knew from that moment that this is what I wanted to devote my time on.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I thought it was incredible. I had learned more about my health after one hour inside this machine than the health system had told me my entire life. I was nervous going in. I learned, thankfully, that there was nothing crazy and life-threatening going on. And I would say the thing that had the most profound impact on why I wanted to work hard to bring this scan to as many people as possible was the incredible peace of mind I got. And I felt like I was bouncing off the walls for weeks afterwards. I knew something about my health that no one else that I passed in the street really knew. And that gave me tremendous happiness to know that if I had a headache, it was because I didn't sleep enough. Or if I had some pain in my stomach, maybe I ate something bad, but it was nothing more serious than this. And in that moment, I really realized that.”
2023-12-07 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT