Advice to CIOs from a VC Investor with Yon Hardisty, Founder of HealthTek Incorporated

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

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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.”

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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

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Links:

Yon Hardisty on LinkedIn

CIO Exchange on Twitter

Yadin Porter de León on Twitter

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