Amit Mehta is a General Partner at BuildersVC and interventional radiologist. BuildersVC is a $450 million venture capital firm which invests in various verticals including healthcare.
We talked about Amit’s journey into entrepreneurship and venture capital, life, success, artificial intelligence and more.
Amit was humble, honest and transparent. His breadth and depth of knowledge and experience shine through his thoughtful answers.
00:00 Introduction
2:22 Canadian innovation landscape
05:40 Path from physician to venture capital
08:50 Most and least favourite experience in past 10 years
11:10 How does a recession affect startups trying to raise?
14:22 First LP cheque
16:00 Conviction vs reward potential when investing
18:04 Would you rather have a life of mini-success or audacious failures?
20:23 Advice for founders selling into health systems
22:36 Should healthcare be profitable?
25:30 What are some tailwinds you were right about? And some you were wrong about?
30:08 Oscar health - fitness tracker for premium rate reduction
31:50 How to gamify healthcare?
35:09 How to incentivize healthy behaviour?
39:00 What is the end game for you?
41:30 What is a perfect birthday for you?
42:29 Operator vs visionary?
45:35 Do you look at companies you passed on and if so do your misses change your investment thesis?
48:00 Stampede: a movie studio investment
49:30 Do you learn more from successes or failures?
52:00 Lessons on hiring
55:00 AI in Healthcare
