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Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan

Jacob Effron, Nikhil Krishnan

Booking Overview

This is an interview-focused healthtech show covering emerging healthcare subsectors, with recurring conversations featuring policy leaders, startup founders, and healthcare executives. Strong pitch candidates include founders scaling digital-health companies, healthcare operators, clinical-AI leaders, and policy experts with substantive industry experience; booking difficulty is high because recent guests are prominent company leaders and the show is produced by a venture-capital firm.

Metrics

Episodes: 70

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 4.2k subscribers

Instagram: 76.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jeffron@redpoint.com

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Host

Jacob Effron - Investor at Redpoint Ventures focused on healthcare and healthtech, and co-host of Vital Signs.

Nikhil Krishnan - Healthcare investor at Redpoint Ventures focused on digital health and emerging healthcare technology, and co-host of Vital Signs.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Founders and CEOs of venture-backed healthtech companies, senior healthcare executives, policy leaders, and experts with substantial experience in digital health, clinical AI, healthcare delivery, reimbursement, or health-system operations.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or led a significant healthcare or digital-health company, Built and scaled healthcare products or clinical operations, Published meaningful healthcare outcomes research or developed evidence-based care models, Held senior leadership roles in prominent healthcare organizations

Recent Guest Discussions

Aidan Dewar - Metabolic Health, Glp-1 Prescribing, Ai-enabled Care, Food-as-medicine Policy, And Hiring In The AI Era.

Chris Altchek - Ai-enabled Chronic Disease Care, Remote Patient Monitoring, Hospital-at-home Models, Clinical Outcomes, CMS Payment Models, And Healthcare Workforce Changes.

Nick Reber - Physician-quality Measurement, Healthcare Cost Variation, Value-based Care, Health-plan Integration, And AI In Healthcare.

Shiv Rao - Ai-native Healthcare, Clinical AI, Doctors Who Code, Regulation, Partnerships, Administrative Versus Clinical Applications, And The Future Of Healthcare Delivery.

Pete Shalek - Ai-powered Front-office Automation, Behavioral Health, Healthcare Operations, Referrals, Structured Clinical Data, And Building For Current Payment Models.

Recent Topics

Health, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, Remote Patient Monitoring, Healthcare Policy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
:

Ep 70: Nourish CEO Aidan Dewar on Hiring in the AI Era, Future of GLP-1s and Scaling Metabolic Health

August 05, 2026

Aidan Dewar, co-founder/CEO of Nourish, walks through how the dietitian-led metabolic care company has evolved from a pure lifestyle-change complement to GLP-1s into a full prescribing platform, and why timing that shift right took four years of deliberate positioning. The conversation covers Nourish's differentiation thesis (scale, product, distribution, and above all execution), how the company built its AI stack from administrative automation to a full patient-facing AI health assistant an...

Ep 69: Cadence Founder Chris Altchek on the Future of Chronic Disease Care

June 24, 2026

Chris Altchek, founder and CEO of Cadence, joins Nikhil and Jacob to discuss how AI is changing the way chronic disease gets managed at scale. Cadence treats 100,000 patients a day across major health systems and has published some of the largest cost and outcomes studies in the space, including a nearly 17,000-patient analysis in Mayo Clinic Proceedings and a 24,000-patient study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The conversation covers the three phases remote patient mon...

Ep 68: Garner Health Founder on Measuring Doctor Quality, The AI Landscape & What Improves Healthcare

May 29, 2026

Nick Reber, CEO and founder of Garner Health, joins Jacob and Nikhil to walk through what is arguably one of the most structurally underrated problems in American healthcare: that the single biggest driver of cost and quality variation isn't which hospital system you use or whether your plan is value-based — it's which individual doctor you see. Nick traces the intellectual journey from his time at Oscar Health, where he first encountered 4x variation in complication rates across physicians a...

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