Shapeshifting Human Health: One Medical’s 30 Year Journey with Former CEO Amir Dan Rubin
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Amir Dan Rubin discusses his 30-year journey in healthcare, emphasizing the importance of long-term thinking and innovation.
What does it really take to build a healthcare company that lasts? In this episode of Innovate and Elevate, Sharon Kedar sits down with Amir Dan Rubin, former CEO of One Medical and Stanford Medicine, to unpack a 30-year journey of building in healthcare. From early ideas around telehealth in the 1990s to leading One Medical through its $3.9 billion acquisition by Amazon, Amir shares what most people misunderstand about innovation in human health. This conversation challenges the narrative of overnight success. Instead, it reveals that the most meaningful breakthroughs require duration, conviction, and the willingness to build long before the outcome is clear. Amir also shares how applying systems thinking from outside of healthcare shaped his leadership across multiple organizations and offers a blueprint for building companies that scale and endure. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Building in healthcare is a long game measured in decades, not quarters The real risk is not failure, but never finding out what could have been Systems thinking from outside industries can unlock innovation in healthcare As this episode highlights, success in healthcare often depends on: Time…
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