Episode 13: The Story of Mentorship To Turn An Idea Into Reality
James is joined by Will Stoddart, a Medical and Tech CEO, with experience founding, growing and scaling Werlabs, a rapidly expanding healthcare internet business based out of Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to Werlabs, Will was a founder, along with his twin brother, at Haploflow; focusing on helping individuals make decisions based on data from wearables. Will has experience across software engineering, medicine and finance - plus a few war stories on founding, raising financing and managing very different cultures: think medicine vs product vs marketing. Currently, Will is founding a new consumer healthcare company that is focusing on monitoring, educating and treating age-related decline in functionality. They cover Will's background, overcoming tragedy, his companies, motivations and passion to solve problems in health. Will gives a practical guide to starting a company, setting up a board, how to streamline the process, mentoring and being mentored and also explains why the tech ecosystem in Stockholm is so powerful. Podcast references: - Monkeyglandin.com - How To Stay Young, BBC - The Hidden 40%, Andreessen Horowitz - Physician Innovators, Andreessen Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz - Daniel Eck, CEO of Spotify - Jonas Norlander, Founder of Avito - Bridgewater's Ray Dalio On The Value Of Embracing Your Weaknesses For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo a5JLhnPM0MwY7xN93CU1