In this episode, Jordan interviews Dick Emmitt. Dick Emmitt’s venture capital firm, the Vertical Group, has been involved in some of the largest deals in the medical device industry. From the first ever billion dollar merger between Boston Scientific and Scimed, to the nearly $4 billion dollar acquisition of Kyphon by Medtronic and the more recent IPO launches of Outset Medical and Silk Road Medical, the Vertical Group has been at the helm guiding and shaping the medical device industry as we know it today.  Listen in as one of the principal financial architects of the medical device industry touches on the past and describes how he assesses startup organizations of the future!