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Nov 2021
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Julie Yoo: A Look at How Andreessen Horo...

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This week on the podcast we sat down with Andreessen Horowitz's General Partner, Julie Yoo. Julie leads the firm's investments in healthtech with a focus on companies that are modernizing how we access, how we pay for, and how we experience healthcare. During this Fireside Chat, Yoo talked about the growth of home health, fintech for healthcare, and her personal passions around solving for provider shortage issues and the mismatch of supply & demand. This session was hosted by StartUp Health's Logan Plaster in front of a live audience of founders from the StartUp Health portfolio. 

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