Never Raise Money For Your Healthcare Startup

An absurdist-ish manifesto

My name is Owen Muir, and I'm a child and adult psychiatrist who cares a lot about Value in Healthcare and who gets upset when things aren't good for patients, who also happen to be humans. I care about value and I care about human values. I make some arguments that do not endear me to the whole world. This will be one of those.

I am not a successful founder of something you've heard of. I am not a particularly successful person. I am a generative person. I write a daily newsletter making fun of successful founder-ship, healthcare companies with explosive growth, and large market cap behemoths.

I literally make fun of actual leviathan and biblical behemoths. Even David? He only picked a fight with Goliath. Goliath would be likely to be a regional manager of an Optum subsidiary.

I don't know if this approach will make me a successful person. I am actually pretty strongly of the belief that being a financially successful person is about luck and a magical belief in secret geniu…