Christian Jepsen

Monday, I'm back from paternity leave. H1 at Corti was intense, but it's been intense privately too. At Corti, we shipped major product drops, dozens of updates, and the team beat two full-year commercial targets tied to top-funnel growth & developer experience while I was out. More on that soon. Privately, we had our 4th kid in 3.5 years, juggling the US and Scandinavian healthcare systems the whole way. We learned some interesting lessons from being a patient/parent across two systems, and I think they say a lot about where AI can actually help on each continent. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝟰: 𝟭. 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻: 𝗨𝗦 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁.  Great doctors (shout-out Dr. Tricia Gold, Tribeca Pediatrics), but data doesn't flow between providers, paperwork is constant, and no shared record means real communication risk between doctors. Coming from Scandi, the difference is CRAZY. 𝟮. 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸: 𝗨𝗦 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸, 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮.  We were told our baby had a fatal condition and needed to abort. Two months of "possibly/probably," nobody willing to take a clear position. My wife flew to Copenhagen, got a real answer in days: misdiagnosis. Healthy kid today. The mistake isn't the point. The point is that in the US, HCPs counsel well and present options, but rarely decide as clearly as you want them to because of malpractice risk and system incentives. In Scandinavia, they take the risk and tell you what to do. A different burden on the patient entirely. 𝟯. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝗘𝗨 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 "𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲" 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝘅𝗲𝘀).  Specialist care in Scandinavia is often tax-funded, but waits are long - months in many cases. In NYC, ZocDoc got us in to see complex specialists in under 2 weeks. Private care in Europe has been squeezed by governments, pushing more people into an overloaded public system that's free on paper but costly in lost time, stress, and worsening symptoms. With no working private system, there is no exit valve. 𝟰. 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀.  Centralized procurement, centralized cost incentives, and risk aversion mean that new drugs, devices, and AI tools take much longer to reach patients than in the US (I know I lived in NYC, which is not average in the US). No competitive pressure means less urgency to adopt anything new, even when it clearly works. The system optimizes for equity and control, not for being first to the best available care. I am not saying one is better, but damn, there's a lot to learn from each other, and there's a lot to do for all of the thousands of AI vendors building on Corti to help improve healthcare efficiency. Onwards.

👋 Meet Saina Gheshlagh Larsen, Heartcore’s new Head of Compliance and Risk Management! Saina joins us from Finance Denmark, where she led thematic work on anti-money laundering and helped shape industry positions on financial regulation. She also brings a wealth of expertise from her time at the Danish FSA, PFA Asset Management and Copenhagen Police’s Economic Crime Department. In other words, she knows exactly how to keep us on the right side of the rulebook. Based in our Copenhagen office, Saina will work closely with our Partner and COO, Signe, across risk, compliance and governance. Outside work, she is usually painting, restoring furniture, listening to podcasts or gathering friends and family around the dinner table. Welcome to Heartcore, Saina! We are very happy to have you with us. ❤️

Sun Matters in mehr als 800 Stores in 15 Ländern - das ruft nach Unterstützung!🚀 WIR SUCHEN: 👩‍💻 Werkstudent:innen 🧑‍🎓 Praktikant:innen DIE MISSION: 💡 Sonnenschutz so intuitiv wie Zähneputzen 🫶 Erste mikrobiom-freundlich zertifizierte Sonnencreme der Welt 🧴 Neue Maßstäbe in Skincare setzen DEINE AUFGABEN: 🔍 Du entwickelst eigene Ideen und setzt sie direkt in Projekten um 🏬 Du besuchst Douglas-Stores und führst Schulungen für das Verkaufspersonal durch ✨ Du erstellst Social Media Content und unterstützt bei Kampagnen 🚀 Du übernimmst von Tag 1 an echte Verantwortung im Startup Das passt zu dir, wenn Du… …unfassbar motiviert bist, viel lernen willst und maßgeblich dazu beitragen willst ein Startup aufzubauen und groß zu machen - mit dem Ziel vielleicht mal selber etwas zu gründen ;) (m/w/d). Klingt nach dir – oder nach jemandem, den du kennst? Schreib uns: hello@sun-matters.com Wir freuen uns riesig, dich kennenzulernen! Stella Hinderer Karla Emcke Finn Reichstein Marlene von Arnim Beatrice von Thurn und Taxis

A little over a week at Quesma, and a lot has already happened. We welcomed Michał Warda, founder of qforge.studio for an inspiring visit. We launched a new website for the product we are already dogfooding internally: a way to understand what coding agents actually do, what they cost, and what outcomes they produce. And we published three technical deep dives: • Piotr Migdał on how quantization hurts factual knowledge nonlinearly • Piotr Grabowski on why retrying interrupted LLM requests introduces length bias • Bartosz Kotrys on how seemingly sensible AI orchestration backfired 4 ways More is just around the corner. Links in the comments.

Experiences are strategic to travel, but the industry didn’t see it yet. It was too busy selling airfares and hotels. But “what they do when they get there is why they go.” ✨ That was our thesis when we first backed GetYourGuide in 2013. Today, it is the world’s largest marketplace for in-destination tours and activities, with billions in GMV, millions of unforgettable memories made and tens of thousands of independent suppliers who have built their business on its platform. Rafat Ali at Skift goes deep on the sixteen-year journey to profitability, and what it took to get there, in this piece: https://lnkd.in/exhfXfJP cc: Johannes Reck, Tao Tao, Nils C., Max Niederhofer

MAJOR UPDATE: Today, we're launching Natural Cycles° on WHOOP - one of the world's most popular and fastest-growing wearables. It's been great to work with the people at WHOOP — ambitious, bold and well organized. Our last sync before today's launch took ten minutes. No last-minute scrambling, we were ready. That's how we like to work. The WHOOP band was validated the same way as our previously FDA-cleared wearable integrations, and it met all the acceptance criteria set out in our Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP). Today, women can use Natural Cycles with the wearable that best fits their lifestyle. Whether it's WHOOP, Oura Ring, Apple Watch, Garmin, or our own NC° Band, users can seamlessly connect their device to the NC° app for hormone-free birth control and reproductive health support across contraception, pregnancy planning, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause. This launch comes only weeks after our most recent FDA clearance of our next-gen algorithm - powered by machine learning trained on millions of cycles. Innovation is in our DNA and i can't get enough of it.

Today, for the first time since I took on the role of Chief Commercial Officer at Grant Thornton UK, the whole Commercial team was in one room in London. Nearly 150 people bringing a breadth of commercial expertise from every part of the country.   Growth is something we build together. Partners across the firm shape where we go, and the Commercial team helps drive the momentum that gets us there. Whether that's a stronger relationship with a client we've worked with for years, a new one we haven't met yet or the reputation that makes both possible.   What struck me most was the talent in that room. People who know their markets, their clients, their sectors and their craft inside out. People who understand where capacity sits across the firm, and the value our work adds to clients. For some, it was a chance to reconnect in person; for others, to properly meet colleagues they’ve worked with from different parts of the country. We spent time on our ambition for growth and what it means to be the commercial engine for this business. But some of the most valuable moments happened between sessions – conversations that sparked ideas, built connections across markets and sectors and strengthened the relationships that help us deliver more for clients.   That's how a team like this gets even more effective. Starting with a plan that everyone's genuinely bought into and building the relationships to deliver it together.   It was a great day, and I look forward to seeing where these conversations lead.

Bartosz Kotrys just joined Quesma's founding team. The path there was unusual. Until now, every core team member came from Warsaw's agglomeration. We hired Bartosz as a contractor for a hard SRE task, and he turned out to be the most productive person I've seen at outsmarting frontier AI models. Good enough to break our own rule. But we had never met. Bartosz is a summer bird: winters in Spain, summers in Kudowa-Zdrój, a small spa town. And months before we ever spoke, I had booked my family holidays there. So last week, the final check happened in person. Verdict from our Slack: passed the in-person Turing test. Confirmed biological neural network. Latency and reliability excellent. No hallucinations. Welcome to the founding team! 🚀