Ep 13: PathAI CEO Dr. Andy Beck on the Future of AI in Medical Diagnosis

Jacob sits down with PathAI Ceo Dr. Andy Beck to discuss the state of AI adoption in diagnosis, why Path acquired their own lab, pathologists' jobs in the future and nailing GTM to reach a ~$1B valuation. 

 

00:00 intro 

01:01 pathology and AI 

13:30 nailing go-to-market strategy 

19:47 how pathology labs can go digital 

25:36 regulatory frameworks and roadblocks 

33:05 do improvements in foundation models impact PathAI? 

36:26 standardizing diagnosis 

40:05 how will the job of a pathologist change going forward? 

42:35 NASH 

47:30 working in Daphne Koller’s lab

 

With your co-hosts: 

@jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical 

@ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) 

@patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn 

@jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health 

@jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint

Jacob is an AI investor at Redpoint Ventures. He's led Redpoint's investments in companies like Abridge, Physical Intelligence & Legora. Follow Jacob on Twitter (@jacobeffron).

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