Blanca Baez

Founder of DBounce - the Spotify for patient data

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

For many people, their trauma imprint and patterns are way bigger than their love.

To me it’s exactly the opposite. So I am utterly perplexed as to how people choose their comfort zone over preserving a precious love bond #wtf

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@dsiroker Hi Dan, I love how you record and communicate with everyone all Rewind news. Would you mind sharing which platform/app you used to record your investor pitch? Thanks!

[James Gunn @JamesGunn]

This has been a sad couple of days. The film industry has lost one of our great talents and friends, Jamie Christopher. Jamie was the First Assistant Director on Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as on Harry Potter, Star Wars, Avengers films and so many more. He was a true filmmaker - a craftsman - who was able to add to a film creatively and just as importantly, figure out incredibly inventive ways of making it happen. He was also a friend, always there with a sly comment under his breath, a hearty laugh, or an incredible story about a day on set. A warm man who earned the respect of the directors, producers, actors, and, most importantly, the crew who worked for him. They all loved him and so do I and boy will I miss him. Rest in Peace, old pal. The world won’t be as sweet without you.

[Martin Bayfield @MartinBayfield]

So sad to hear that Jamie Christopher has been taken from us. A huge part of the #HarryPotter family, his energy and good humour ensured that when days went long and slightly off piste the job was done right and with a smile. My deepest sympathies go to his family and friends

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

This is hilarious @h2so4hurts. The fact that she’s facing and living the consequences of her acts, makes me have faith in parts of our justice system. I’m just not sure how aware she is. Your humorous points are well made and do pose the question of how…https://t.co/oorUkBRM5w

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@eldsjal What I do know, it’s that it’ll be based on quantum

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

I’m a big proponent and advocate of workplaces and environments where hierarchy and seniority do not preclude inclusion of diversity of skills/acumen, and don’t impede valuing and leveraging the contributions from all involved. I just discovered #elegantbullying as antithesis.

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

Delighted to be chairing this panel of experts this Thursday to talk about the 2nd hottest topic in the world today (after AI): Data!

Data underpins all things AI. We will be discussing #data and #dataccess from the point of view of #aiforhealthcare at…https://t.co/HbSChE6Vmi

[Dan Siroker @dsiroker]

I wasn't planning on sharing this today but since the news leaked, I feel obliged to comment:

I've raised over $200M in my career and have learned a lot about what works & what doesn't.

This time around, I decided to do a few unconventional things. First, I decided to forgo the silly tradition of raising a round privately and only talking to a small handful of folks. The major benefit of making our pitch public was that I could cast a wide net and find the exact right investor for us. Our public pitch was viewed 1.7M times on Twitter. From that, I received 1,010 preliminary offers to invest which led to 170 committed offers.

Secondly, another unconventional thing I did was spend weeks in back-to-back meetings really trying to get to know investors and finding the right fit. I did reference checks. I did diligence. I did my homework. Rewind is my life's work and expect to spend decades pursuing our vision of giving humans perfect memory. The firm I choose to work with in this round will be a relationship I have for decades. So, ultimately, I chose NEA. Their long-term orientation is evident in the fact that their funds last 15 years, unlike the typical 10. Not only that, but they commonly are buyers, not sellers at the IPO. Lastly, their unbelievably positive references made it clear they are the partner I want to be working with for decades to come.

Ultimately, this meant I had to turn down offers to invest from 61 investors who offered valuations greater than $350M, including 22 investors who wanted to invest at a billion dollar valuation, which would have made us a unicorn. I'd much rather have a partner who believes in building a big business in the long-term, than simply one who wants to win a hot deal today.

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

So humbled and such a pleasure to be invited to this podcast forum on #theleaderswhocare. Thanks all and looking forward to the episode ✨ https://t.co/OtAEEa7ppH

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

Love it when antitrust bodies are effective in protecting the market and consumers from unhelpful domination https://t.co/T6XoEuvYqd

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@nikillinit 😂

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@nikillinit 👏👏

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@sbyrnes @jefielding IMO, this has nothing to do with unawareness of practices…this is an outright principles matter. As the other person said above, everyone (even kids) understands basic ethics! I’d be livid if this had happened to me.

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

Hilarious…and so true 😆 https://t.co/zC2cF2zlLG

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@nikillinit In fact, not even scientific research is appropriately incentivised to take the patient directly into account…

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@nikillinit 100% agree. Most patients are aware, in one form of another, that most HCPs are sadly not incentivised to prioritise their best interest. This is true across the globe - with some joyful green shoots of exceptions in some countries (Scandinavia springs to mine).

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

One of the reasons I think healthcare is particularly vulnerable

Patients have low trust in healthcare because they think every stakeholder is incentivized not in their best interest

ChatGPT doesn’t have incentives or ulterior motives, so they might trust it’s output more

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

To all members of the The Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), come join us!! We will dissect the most pressing, exciting, real, current and imminent, opportunities and happenings in the world of AI applied to healthcare. We will tak…https://t.co/m9knHuY4yU

[Blanca Baez @bbaez]

@nikillinit This approach and person or only applies to care models but to clinical studies themselves! The equivalent of the rigorous are randomised clinical trials, and the other lax extreme is observational RWE studies