five year mortality after a diabetic foot ulcer is ~30%.
all cancers pooled: 31%.
almost nobody knows this. and providers are quietly exiting the one intervention that prevents it.
not because it doesn't work. because of paperwork.
How do we prevent 1 in 3 diabetic foot ulcer patients from dying? See below 👇
Every serious manufacturing company in the next decade will be a software company that happens to own its factories. Physical AI, precision robotics, agents, 3D printing. These stop being separate technologies the moment you own the whole chain.
I've watched this happen twice, going from zero to unicorn/decacorn.
Excited to share I joined Hike Medical as COO in January to do it again, in a $200B market that has never seen it.
Thread on what I learned at GE, @flexport, and @meet_Dandy, and why DME is next. 👇