What if a clinical record sells for magnitudes more on the dark web than a social security number, and almost nobody outside healthcare is talking about it?

In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Sandeep pulls back the curtain on building Heald, a company attacking metabolic health as the root cause behind most chronic conditions, drawing on a career that took him from Amazon to founder and investor. He dismantles the founder myth that speed always wins, making the case that patience means slowing down enough to decide on data, research, and customer signals rather than gut feel, then letting the decision stick long enough to read the KPIs.

You will learn where impulse still earns its place in hiring and culture, why failing to fire fast is a disservice to everyone who took a risk on your company, and how AI belongs inside a healthcare product only where there is a real problem for it to solve.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Why Patience Beats Speed
2:53 - Balancing Patience With Momentum
5:03 - Decisions You Regret Most
7:26 - Turning Regret Into Drive
8:07 - When to Trust Your Impulse
9:54 - Hire Slow Fire Fast
12:07 - Letting People Self Select Out
13:07 - Does AI Terrify or Excite You
14:37 - Protecting Healthcare Data
16:03 - What Heald Actually Does
19:15 - Metabolic Health Explained
20:42 - Sleep HRV and Blood Glucose
23:28 - Intermittent Fasting Is Personal
24:36 - Book Recommendation

Book Recommendation: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

About Sandeep
Sandeep is the founder of Heald, a company built to address metabolic health, the root cause behind most chronic conditions from obesity and hypertension to cardiac disease and cancer. Heald combines technology with human care teams across four factors most of the industry ignores: nutrition, fitness, sleep, and stress, pulling data from wearables, glucose monitors, and smart scales while keeping humans accountable to patients. Before founding Heald he spent time at Amazon, where the leadership principle that leaders are right a lot shaped how he balances instinct with evidence. He builds with a bias toward data over impulse, patience over speed, and using AI where there is an actual problem to solve rather than as a solution in search of one.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/misrasandeep/

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Inside the Silicon Mind takes you behind the scenes with the founders, CEOs, and VCs building the future of technology. Every week, Firas Sozan sits down with the operators and investors rewriting the rules, from deep tech startups to the security challenges created by AI.

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