VC Investor Yon Hardisty, Founder of Healthtek Incorporated, joins Yadin on the podcast to share his advice for CIOs and his perspectives on long-term investing. They discuss navigating board and executive staff conversations. They also dive into lessons from the gaming industry that can help improve preventative healthcare, and vice versa

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Key Quotes:

“The thing that I would do is as a CIO, I would let the board members know that I know who their customer is as well as they do. And what I bring to the table is I also know technology better than they do.”

“It's not about the technology. It's about the human.”

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Timestamps:

(01:00) Yon’s approach to long-term investing 

(07:41) Managing shareholder value and short-term pressure 

(12:49) The connection between games and healthcare

(15:29) How did Yon introduce game concepts to healthcare?

(18:45) Guiding the board towards long-term investments 

(22:08) How are tech trends changing the way people invest? 

(27:29) Advice to a CIO pitching to a C-level executive

(28:28) Advice to CIOs for conversations with the board and executive staff

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Links:

Yon Hardisty on LinkedIn

CIO Exchange on Twitter

Yadin Porter de León on Twitter

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