Christopher Benassi

Intersection of healthcare & business | Fmr @Baxter_intl + @GoldmanSachs healthcare + @Cambridge_uni + @USC neuroscience ​| All tweets = my own

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Great visual from @julesyoo @a16z with the juxtaposition of US food and medical costs as a % of GDP - showing a virtual swap between the two expenditures

1960
*Food: ~14%
*HC: ~5%

Today:
*Food: ~8%
*HC: ~18%

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@foundersfund @SpenceKimber visit Milan and let's do this

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@josiezayner This looked like a blast! Told my wife this morning we needed to recreate it for a dinner party

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@sevaustinov @SpenceKimber

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@landon20s nice work!

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@stspanho This is awesome

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@suekhim Would love to try it w my daughter

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@jrkelly @Ginkgo @heailth you should lean into your robotics experience

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@garrytan @SpenceKimber ties into our convo from Friday

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@TraceyRyniec @vanillaopinions I live a block away. All the newly proposed builds get chopped in half here

[a16z @a16z]

Narrative violations abound:

- Demand for software engineers is rising
- Software devs are rising as a share of new jobs
- AI exposed industries are seeing above-trend wage growth
- Open PM jobs haven't been higher since 2022

More from a16z's David George on the "AI job apocalypse" myth: https://t.co/7sbadmEElG

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@RxRegA Wow this is wild

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@antoniogm @heailth any truth to this?

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VINDICATION

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@newbworks @aaronjmars Feels like @matt_levine would appreciate this joke

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@nikillinit Yes and no, its like saying peoples' experiences w Apple and Samsung phones are different... but comparing an iphone from 2024 against a Samsung from 2019. The outputs are going to be further exacerbated by the poor comp set

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@tbpn @MartinShkreli @maxmarchione amazing

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@ttunguz @nikillinit open source. open source. surprised I was first to tag you

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@nikillinit Trure...yeah hit send and regretted it. Also, depends on fixed cost base and also if current MV ED mix/profitability. Either way - your article felt more impactful that I would have guessed