CIO Exchange Podcast · 2024-01-03 · 33 min
VC Investor Yon Hardisty, Founder of Healthtek Incorporated, joins Yadin on the podcast to share his advice for CIOs and his perspectives on long-term investing. They discuss navigating board and executive staff conversations. They also dive into lessons from the gaming industry that can help improve preventative healthcare, and vice versa - Key Quotes: “The thing that I would do is as a CIO, I would let the board members know that I know who their customer is as well as they do. And what I bring to the table is I also know technology better than they do.” “It's not about the technology. It's about the human.” - Timestamps: (01:00) Yon’s approach to long-term investing (07:41) Managing shareholder value and short-term pressure (12:49) The connection between games and healthcare (15:29) How did Yon introduce game concepts to healthcare? (18:45) Guiding the board towards long-term investments (22:08) How are tech trends changing the way people invest? (27:29) Advice to a CIO pitching to a C-level executive (28:28) Advice to CIOs for conversations with the board and executive staff - Links: Yon Hardisty on LinkedIn CIO Exchange on Twitter Yadin Porter de León on Twitter [
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