Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
Sloane Scott: On Being a Self-Pay Patient and How to Create Shareholder Value
Sloane Scott has an amazing personal story. Along with being a 3x ovarian cancer survivor, she has led multiple health tech companies to successful exits as a strategic leader and communicator. She discusses navigating her cancer journey with no health insurance and, as a successful business leader, discusses how to create shareholder value. She lays out in a detailed and practical way how to navigate safe pay as a patient.
Currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Collette Health, she's seen healthcare from a business and patient perspective, and has lots of valuable insights to share on both.
Jason Moore: Selling SaaS into Healthcare
Entrepreneur and successful tech founder Jason Moore discusses his experience in selling SaaS into healthcare and offers advice for those starting down that road. He emphasizes the importance of patience in SaaS sales, particularly in the healthcare industry where decision-making can be slow.
Eric Satz: The Case for Alternative Assets
Eric Satz, founder of Alto, an investment platform that allows individuals to invest their retirement accounts in alternative assets discusses his journey of building Alto from scratch and the challenges he faced along the way. He also talks about the fun and not-so-fun aspects of starting a business. Satz emphasizes the importance of building a strong team and having the support of family and loved ones when embarking on an entrepreneurial venture. Finally, Satz shares his thoughts on the financial industry, the value of alternative assets, and the role of luck in business success.
The Ethics and Risks of Artificial Intelligence, and How to Hire the Right People
Data product advisor Sharon Chou and Fortune’s Path President Tom Noser discuss the ethics and risks of artificial intelligence, and how to hire the right people, with some lighter topics like quantum computing thrown in, on this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
What Software Makers Can Learn From Adidas
Software makers can learn a lot from companies like Adidas. In this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast, Tom talks with quality and compliance expert Norbert Teston, formerly Director of Compliance Excellence at Adidas. Learn how the quality processes in manufacturing might be applied to software development, especially when it comes to root cause analysis, and how risk analysis is all about error tolerance.
Rich Bouchner: Private Equity Real Estate and Dogs
Rich Bouchner of Alpha Investing, a private equity real estate firm, and Fortune’s Path founder Tom Noser cover a number of topics in this podcast, including how Alpha chooses properties, why they only invest in properties that already exist, the impact of rising interest rates on his business, and the role that a history degree plays in developing a consultative approach to sales
Chris Boyd: How Incentives Can Help Address Construction Industry Labor Shortages
Tom talks with Chris Boyd, formerly of Built Technologies and now at Trunk Tools, a construction fintech startup. Chris wants to help solve the skilled labor shortage by aligning incentives from top to bottom.
Ray Guzman: AI and the Paper Ceiling
Tom talks with Ray Guzman, Army veteran, advisor, board member, strategist, and CEO of Switchpoint Ventures, an innovation enabler making AI investments in organizations that seek transformation through machine learning.
Andrew Kerr: Building Software is Like Making a Movie
Tom talks with Andrew Kerr, CEO and Managing Partner at FortyAU, a technology consultancy in Nashville that builds innovative software for some of the world's largest companies. Andrew talks about balancing quality and speed in the software development process, why many software projects fail, and how a bad rollout can kill the best software, on this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast.
Luther Cale— Working to make healthcare safer, remote from Ecuador
What's it like raising a daughter in Ecuador? What's a good way to work remotely from another country? How do you build a new product in healthcare? These are some of the questions we ask Luther Cale, Vice President of Clinical Programs at Healthstream.