From Waiting Tables to Venture Capital | Marcus Whitney

About this episode

Marcus Whitney discusses his journey from college dropout to healthcare venture capitalist and shares insights on entrepreneurship and resilience.

Entrepreneur and healthcare investor Marcus Whitney joins the Matthews Mentality podcast to discuss his journey from growing up in Brooklyn and dropping out of college to teaching himself to code, becoming a CTO, and eventually co-founding and leading Jumpstart Health Investors, an early-stage healthcare venture firm. He explains why building companies in healthcare is uniquely difficult due to regulation and structural barriers like certificates of need, and why healthcare is now being “flanked” by multiple forces of disruption. Whitney also shares how he helped build Nashville SC from a fourth-division nonprofit into an MLS franchise, why he wrote Create and Orchestrate after experiences with prison entrepreneurship programs and a near-jail moment in his youth, and what jiu-jitsu taught him about humility, resilience, and pain tolerance. 00:00 Entrepreneurship Fine Line 00:58 Meet Marcus Whitney 02:09 Jiu Jitsu Origins 02:39 Healthcare VC Focus 05:39 Why Healthcare Is Hard 07:40 Brooklyn Eighties 10:13 Self Belief And Wrestling 13:15 College Dropout Lessons 15:18 First Kid Turning Point 16:08 Learning To Code 17:51 First Startup Reality Check 21:12 Entrepreneurship…

People in this episode

Host: Kyle Matthews

Guest: Marcus Whitney

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• healthcare
• venture capital
• personal growth
• sports
• resilience

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• healthcare
• venture capital
• Nashville SC
• Create and Orchestrate
• jiu-jitsu
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jumpstart Health Investors

Books & works: Create and Orchestrate

Places: Brooklyn, Nashville

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