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This podcast episode features a conversation with Spencer, a venture capitalist specializing in health tech, who discusses the AI healthcare landscape. He describes the challenges and opportunities in the field, including lengthy sales cycles and data privacy concerns. Spencer shares his investment criteria, emphasizing strong teams and viable business models. He also highlights successful and unsuccessful investment examples, differentiating between products that are "good for patients" and those that are also "good for investors." Finally, he offers advice for entrepreneurs entering the AI healthcare space.

Spencer Greene Bio: Managing Partner at TSVC, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on deep tech, health tech, and the data economy. Spencer leads the firm’s health tech practice. He has a master's in engineering from Stanford University and has experience as a founder of two acquired startups, an executive in several acquired companies, and an angel investor for over 15 years.

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Hosts quick bio:

Tom Kong

*Stanford EE alumni,

*Founder@ Stanford AGI Adventist Community (10K+ members so far from top VC, Engineers, startups from Silicon Valley )

*AI Lecturer, a serial entrepreneur in media and data. Advisor @ techtimes.com

*AI deployment for 8 years, with NLP and recent LLMs (RAG, Agent, Diffusion)

Wickey Wang

*BYU alumni and SCU CAAP alumni

*IT Security Compliance/Auditor & CSTU Faculty

*Growth fund VC advisor and Angel Investor with cybersecurity and AI focus

*Cofounder@SafenAI (NGO)

*GAI Security book co-author 

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