The a16z Show · Sunday, September 6, 2026
The conversation touches upon AI startups tackling the healthcare industry's complex, bureaucratic, and legacy issues. Julie Yoo notes that while past ventures like hers faced challenges due to the industry's resistance to technology, current AI advancements are enabling solutions to these long-standing problems.
“I talk to startups all the time, especially in AI, and one of the common themes that we're seeing is that they're going towards the hard problems, the ones that are really bureaucratic, the ones that are legacy, that if you solve it correctly, literally saves hundreds of thousands, billions of lives.”
“It wasn't as sexy of an industry, it was harder to get talent, it was harder to get capital.”
“But it seems to me that that's no longer the case.”