Opinion: Digital health startups need more doctor CEOs
There’s nothing that should inherently stop a doctor from becoming a startup CEO.
In my decade living in Silicon Valley as a digital health journalist and now an investor, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people in the tech industry claim that doctors don’t have what it takes for a career in entrepreneurship. As the traditional thinking goes, because they’re so risk-averse and lack business training, physicians are not well suited to a high-growth, venture-backed startup environment.
Many of the physicians I know have heard these ideas so much that they’ve internalized them. Byron Crowe, an academic hospitalist, told me that physicians who want to move into business must work “very intentionally” to become businesspeople and most lack the confidence to make the leap.
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