Born out of a search fund, Bjoern von Siemens and Dennis Kogan set out over 12 years ago to dramatically improve surgical outcomes by becoming a platform for "complex coordination" (see Peter Thiel) in operating rooms around the globe. Although Bjoern never used this term, looking back it seems audacious for a small, thinly capitalized company to grow to orchestrate a complex, life-critical network of huge surgical equipment and surgical robot makers, massive hospital groups, large insurance companies and software developers to save lives.

Over a decade later, having raised "100s of millions" of dollars, Caresyntax coordinates surgery in well over a thousand operating rooms and with "tens of millions" in revenues is doubling its size every couple of years.

Favorite quotes:

• "Don't compromise on core values or core beliefs. The biggest mistakes we have made have been when we compromised alignment in favor of competence."
• "Put clarity over harmony - this is very important for leadership."

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