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Udit Gupta is an engineer by education & product designer by profession. As Head of Product at Zomato - he oversaw the food delivery product. It involved acquiring new customers through non-traditional channels, launching new product lines and improving the overall customer retention of the product. Prior to food delivery, he also launched the Zomato Gold subscription product and led its growth to a million user customer base. Udit has been an early member of the Zomato team since joining it in 2013. In early 2020, he co-founded his own company with Akarsh Sanghi and raised initial seed capital from Y Combinator.
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Brains Byte Back interviews startups, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing yourself for the new information age, join us every other Friday. Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.
According to Ruchi Thanawala M.D., M.S., Co-founder of Firefly Lab, an educational data management system (platform) for tracking medical, clinical, and procedural performance, 234,000,000 are performed every year, and the skill of a surgeon accounts for 25% of the overall outcome of the surgery.
With this in mind, we spoke with Ruchi to understand more about the work Firefly Lab is doing to bring quantitative data science into medical and surgical education.
In this episode, we cover:
- How FireFly Lab began
- The story behind the name FireFly Lab
- How advances in AI to power educational platforms, stand to change the way surgeons are trained
- How a more personalized approach to surgeons’ training, with performance tracking and feedback, can improve the overall results of their preparation
- How virtual reality can be used to enhance surgeons’ training
- What’s next for FireFly Lab
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Our Guest🙋:
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Find out more about Firefly Lab here (website) – https://www.fireflylab.org/
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