A Trillion Small Problems (ft. Andrew Gostine)

**Ed Marx** (0:00)
What are one or two key skills that you believe have helped you to get to where you are and you look for in other people?

**Andrew Gostine** (0:05)
If people can't communicate, it doesn't matter how smart you are, it's really hard to be successful. And I realized, again, why is nobody in healthcare using all of the amazing technology we have? Being hyper-focused on that problem-solving and having other people to really push you forward is what sustains you when everyone is telling you to do the real work.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:32)
Welcome to DGTL Voices, where healthcare and life science leaders explore the real work behind transformation. This podcast is about people, leadership and the conversations that move healthcare forward. Now your host, Ed Marx.

**Ed Marx** (0:47)
Welcome to another edition of DGTL Voices. Thank you for tuning in. I know you have a lot of choices, so much great content out there. I listen, watch a lot myself and you chose us.
And for that, I am thankful and we'll make the next 30 minutes worthwhile because I have the amazing CEO of Artisight, Dr. Andy Gostine. Andy, welcome to DGTL Voices.

**Andrew Gostine** (1:10)
Thanks for having me here.

**Ed Marx** (1:11)
Yeah, this could be so fun. We just met through the industry in the last couple of years, seen each other around, we talked to each other, and it's always interesting, you know, watching new companies emerge and do good things.
But the most important thing, Andy, as we get rolling here, the most important question is, what songs are in your playlist? What kind of music do you like to listen to?

**Andrew Gostine** (1:33)
So I was thinking about this, actually went and checked my Spotify this morning in preparation for that. And my entire playlist has been taken over by my daughters. I have three of them.
And the K-pop Demon Hunters album has been played on repeat. So it's a lot of hunt tricks right now.

**Ed Marx** (1:52)
I saw that when I was like on Netflix, one of the top 10 movies right now, it's always Demon Hunters of some sort. So, yeah. And what about life message or mantra? Are there words that sort of guide how you live?

**Andrew Gostine** (2:04)
Starting at company is a very complicated thing. It's people think it all comes down to one really grand idea or something like that. It really is solving a trillion small problems. And if I've ever been unable to answer the question, which is my mantra, what is the next step? I know there's an issue. And so I'm constantly asking myself and our team and our advisors and investors and our clients, what is the next step? And universally, if someone cannot answer that question, they're either lost, someone's lying to us.
And so I constantly ask that question. It is my favorite question to ask.

**Ed Marx** (2:50)
I like that. That's good. At some point, we have a playlist for all the music on Spotify called DGTL Voices. And at some point, we are going to do all of the mantras as well. And that's a good one. And I think that's the first time that I've heard that one out of 331 episodes. Eddie, let's talk about you. We already know a little bit.
Not only are you a founder and a doctor, but you have three daughters. Tell us who you are. Like, what's your story? Like, where did you grow up? Just start from the beginning.

**Andrew Gostine** (3:16)
Yeah. So I grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which was a phenomenal place to grow up. I was really lucky that we had a really kind of high performing class that I ended up in grade school and high school with. I think something like 18 of the top 20 of us ended up as positions, and I think there was a lawyer and a chemical engineer. So it really was a phenomenal place to grow up.
Running Artisight, a little bit more difficult to do it from Grand Rapids just because the airport's always a connection. So I ended up kind of throughout my journey of doing college in Boston, and then went to medical school at Georgetown in DC. Took a little bit of a detour for business school, which really kind of set the tone for the rest of my life. I was always in and out of medicine, even now. And so I went to business school, realized in business school that there was something called artificial intelligence and you could predict things with it. And got back to medical school and I was like, why are we not using any of this here? So much of this is probably predictable. Why are we using humans to try to figure out what's going on? So I then started my residency at Northwestern here in Chicago, where a month after getting here, I met my future wife, which created an anchor point here.