- Health Care Innovation. Accolade offers services that sound similar to Medici, which I wrote about at Forbes recently. CEO Raj Singh says that although most people have a primary care doctor, it typically takes 30 days to get an appointment. With Accolade they can get a video consultation in 15 minutes. Like Medici, they offer second opinions on more serious health care procedures. See Singh’s interview with Matthew Holt. Best line: In the near future, “every company will be an AI company, or they will be out of business.”
- Genes Matter. Study: “a one standard-deviation increase in parents’ looks is associated with a 0.4 standard-deviation increase in their child’s looks.” And since looks and income are correlated, a “one standard-deviation difference in parents’ looks generates a 0.06 standard-deviation difference in their adult child’s earnings, which amounts to additional annual earnings in the U.S. of about $2300.”
