Brendan Coughlin is a versatile serial entrepreneur and high-impact executive who has spent over 35 years redefining the intersection of healthcare and scalable technology. A seasoned veteran in business management and start-ups, Brendan has successfully launched, acquired, or turned around multiple ventures across diverse sectors, including manufacturing, energy, and digital marketing. Currently, he serves as a lead executive at Global Telehealth Services (GTS), where he spearheaded the development of GTS VirtualHealth the only Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) SaaS platform in the global marketplace to achieve the “gold-standard” FedRAMP Moderate authorization. Dedicated to technical excellence and mission-driven growth, Brendan specializes in bridging the gap between advanced healthtech and the essential human need for secure, accessible wellness at a global scale.
Building a FedRAMP Authorized Remote Patient Monitoring platform in the most regulated industry in the world requires more than just innovation; it requires a mastery of operational discipline. In this episode of Lessons from the Leap, Ghazenfer Mansoor sits down with Brendan Coughlin to pull back the curtain on the arduous four-year journey to obtaining FedRAMP Moderate authorization for GTS VirtualHealth.
Brendan shares the raw reality of navigating federal bureaucracies and the strategic decision to pivot away from commercial hospital systems toward the Veterans Administration (VA). He explains how GTS transformed a tedious compliance process into a massive competitive “easy button,” creating a unique “technical moat” in the global marketplace. This shift underscores how Regulatory Compliance as a Competitive Advantage can redefine HealthTech SaaS Scalability.
Join Ghazenfer Mansoor in today’s episode of Lessons from the Leap as he speaks with Brendan Coughlin, serial entrepreneur and lead executive at Global Telehealth Services, about the intersection of Healthcare Innovation, Government Contracting Strategies, and the future of Defensible Healthcare Platforms. Together, they explore the future of AI in Healthcare and why the ability to “outlast your assumptions” is the most critical trait for any Serial Entrepreneur navigating a high-stakes pivot.
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[00:00:00] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Today’s guest is not just a serial entrepreneur. He’s a builder of infrastructure in one of the most regulated and sensitive industries in the world. Brendan Coughlin has spent over 35 years building and acquiring companies across multiple industries. Today he helps lead global telehealth services, the maker of GTS Virtual Health. The only FedRAMP authorized treatment at distance and remote patient monitoring saas platform in the global marketplace. FedRAMP is not just compliance. It represents federal, graded security, rigorous controls and operational discipline at the highest level.
In an era, where AI is being layered into healthcare and patient data is more sensitive than ever. Building at this level requires more than speed. It requires architecture, governance and long-term thinking. Today we are diving into what it takes to build defensible healthcare platforms, how compliance become a competitive edge, and where AI is truly making a difference.
[00:01:14] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Hello and welcome to Lessons from the Leap. I’m your host Ghazenfer Mansoor. On this show, I sit down with entrepreneurs and business leaders to talk about the bold decisions and innovative ideas that shaped their journey. This episode is brought to you by Technology Rivers. We bring innovation through AI and technology to solve real world industry problems.
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Today we’re joined by Brendan Coughlin, a serial entrepreneur with over 35 years of management experience and specialist in scaling early stage companies across tech, manufacturing and healthcare. Brendan, welcome to the show. Just give us, intro to our audience. Let us know who you are and anything you wanna share about yourself, and then we’ll go from there.
[00:02:20] Brendan Coughlin: Sure. Well nice to be here ’cause I from Thanks for the invitation. Yeah, as you mentioned, my name is Brendan Coughlin. I’m currently one of the co-owners of a company called Global Telehealth Services. We’re a software as a service platform in the health tech space. We have developed the only FedRAMP authorized remote patient monitoring and treatment and distance software platform, specifically designed for the federal space.
We have an enterprise wide contract with the Veterans Administration, and are pursuing other paths within the federal government for those agencies that provide healthcare. As you mentioned in your intro, I’ve been in various industries over the course of my 35 year career, from retail in my early career.
Manufacturing, to the internet in the first internet phase of when the internet became hot in the late nineties, was involved in oil and gas. I’ve owned a broker dealer. I’ve been in digital marketing. I’ve done several real estate deals, currently residing and spending most of my time in health tech and been involved in a lot of different industries, and I’ve always viewed myself as.
Kind of an opportunist. I, opportunist, I’ve never really been hung up on the particular service or product that I was involved in selling. I always liked to pursue those markets that I thought had big market potential and sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn’t.
But, I think for me anyway, that’s been the path that’s led me forward.
[00:04:11] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Thanks for sharing. So you have been in a different industry. Obviously digital marketing is another one.So how did you get into healthcare?
[00:04:20] Brendan Coughlin: This is my first venture into healthcare. In 2016. My wife and I moved up to Cleveland at that time I co-owned a digital marketing platform with a partner here in Dallas, where I’m at the moment. I live in Cleveland, but I’m in Dallas at the moment. and I’m from Dallas. But, we moved to a server in Cleveland called Hudson in 2016, and I was introduced to a company called Global Telehealth Services, the company that I’m now a part of, and really liked what they were doing.
They were still kind of in the MVP stage of their business, but had what I consider to be a pretty compelling vision for this remote patient monitoring platform that they were designing for the purpose of monitoring chronic or patients with chronic conditions and trying to reduce hospitalizations. It seemed like a very innovative and disruptive technology that also had kind of a big data angle that I liked because if you got enough patients on that platform, you’re generating a tremendous amount of health, health data.
And this was another one of those opportunities I thought there was a big market and was potentially disruptive and it was something I was interested in. Originally, I’d simply invested in the company, but was asked by the CEO at the time to join the company’s executive team. Which I did in 2016 that the CEO is no longer with the company.
And, now another gentleman and myself essentially run the company and, I own a, a, a decent chunk of the company. So together we run it. and, you know, that was kind of my foray into health tech. So, you know, I did my due diligence at the beginning and saw what I believe to be, and later confirmed, was a very large market with a disruptive technology, and now we’re pursuing a fairly niche space, but still, an absolutely enormous market.
And, you know, we’re very excited about what the future of remote monitoring plays in the healthcare space.
[00:06:44] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Okay, cool. So remote patient monitoring, telehealth are the two ways Offerings that you have?
[00:06:54] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah, so it’s a single platform that has both of those capabilities. So remote monitoring is essentially a software platform and in our case has the ability to read data from bluetooth enabled vital monitoring devices. Now, to clarify one point, we are not a hardware company. We don’t, we’re not involved in the manufacturing or even a sale of any specific vital monitoring devices. We have simply created this middleware layer that can, have any, pretty much any vital monitoring device integrated into our software platform.
So we have the ability to utilize essentially any vital monitoring device or really any. device that emits a Bluetooth signal for reading patient data. So it could be, you know, the most obvious devices like a pulse oximeter or a blood pressure cuff, or a thermometer, or a scale that all emit a Bluetooth signal.
But it could also be things like a heart monitor or a sleep apnea machine or, you know, the sky’s really the limit, but if it emits a Bluetooth signal, it emits patient data, we can pull that data and pull it into our platform. Now, as you mentioned, we also have telehealth capabilities and we also have a, a bunch of other capabilities that I don’t wanna spend the whole podcast talking about, but there, there’s a whole other series of technologies and capabilities within the platform, which is why we call it a treatment at distance.
It’s not just remote patient monitoring, pulling vital data. It’s not just telehealth giving the patient the ability to converse and have a conversation with their clinician. It’s a whole suite of services that essentially make it a true treatment of distance platforms and for your listeners who may not be familiar with FedRAMP, I’ll, I’ll clarify what that means.
We have an enterprise-wide contract with the Veterans Administration and the VA is the largest hospital system in the world. And any company, any SaaS company, which is handling or managing federally owned data and in our case, the vital data of veterans would be considered, federally owned data. Those companies are required to go through the federal government’s security and privacy authorization process. And that’s what is called FedRAMP.
FedRAMP is an extremely tedious, extremely deep, extremely rigorous process to go through in order to get what is essentially the highest security and privacy standard that exists and be approved for that process to be able to essentially manage and handle government owned data.
And we are the only. Remote patient monitoring treatment at a distance platform that has the full FedRAMP authorization.
[00:10:02] Ghazenfer Mansoor: That’s, that’s amazing. So obviously, being in a software development company where we also helped companies in that process, I can understand how tedious, time consuming effort is that,
How did that impact your company’s direction when you got the FedRAMP, are you still working commercially as well, or is that the only focus? How is helping in terms of the company’s defensibility and valuation?
[00:10:33] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah, so we are pursuing commercial paths. but we, and I’ll, I’ll go back and kind of tell the story of why we went down the FedRAMP path in the first place.
So we’d been talking to the VA, we’d been originally pursuing. Commercial opportunities. And what we realized after we had kind of completely developed the platform, even though we’d run a, a pun, a number of very successful pilots demonstrating the effectiveness of reducing hospitalizations using our platform.
What we found in the commercial space, with particularly the hospital systems that we were working with and pursuing, was what we learned. You know, the mission of hospital systems, they say, is to, you know, help patients get better. What we learned was, yes, that is part of their vision, part of their mission, but utilizing technologies that keep people out of their hospital is not in their best interest.
So that was one of the reasons why we. We’re very interested in talking to the VA all the way back in 2017 when we first started talking to them. Because the VA is very different from most hospital systems. They’re both the provider of clinical services and medical services services for veterans, but they’re also the payer.
So their primary interest is in fact improving the health of veterans. The 19 million veterans that they care for in the United States, and they’re not as concerned as the private hospital systems, the commercial hospital systems that our platform might keep them out of their medical facilities. In fact, many people that we’ve talked to have said that’s a great thing and it should be a great thing, that our platform is very effective in keeping people out of their medical facilities Now.
When COVID hit in 2020, we were approached by the Veterans Administration. We had done a number of pilots with them. We were proving the effectiveness of our platform. We were trying to figure out what would be necessary in order for us to have a contract with the Veterans Administration. And when COVID hit, they approached us and said, we would like you to get FedRAMP authorized so that we can use your platform in our medical facilities to help.
COVID patients. And many, many, many years ago, apparently there was a program that fast tracked companies through the FedRAMP process. ’cause the FedRAMP took us four years. And that’s normal for the normal FedRAMP process. But apparently in this old expedited program, it only took a matter of months.
and because they thought that under the circumstances of COVID and the emergency nature of COVID, that they could resurrect that fast track program. So we began the process of this Fast Track FedRAMP program and six months later we still didn’t have FedRAMP and they were unable to. I guess resurrect or get approval to resurrect this old program.
And we figured that we were already down this path. We did realize that it would be a significant competitive advantage. So we decided that even though the Fast Track program wasn’t available, that we were gonna continue down the path of FedRAMP. We were FedRAMP approved, meaning our platform could be used after about two and a half years, but we didn’t have our final full FedRAMP authorization.
That allowed us to be displayed in the FedRAMP store. The FedRAMP store has been online for about four years. So it was a very expensive, very time consuming process. But by virtue of us now having that platform, we’re extremely well positioned in the federal government, with the VA and any other federal agency that provides healthcare services.
[00:14:39] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Cool, so now with AI things are changing a lot. Are you using AI anywhere in your business and how is it impacting?
[00:14:49] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah, so you know, it’s an interesting question. We get asked that a lot of what we have built is a very robust data pipe. And there are many ways that we could potentially utilize AI and predictive analytics to do things with that data.
What we don’t wanna do though, is try and predict what customers are going to want. So in addition to, well, one of the ways we built our platform was with. A great deal of flexibility in mind so that if a customer did to come to us and say, I want to use AI or predictive analytics for X, Y, and Z, with all the data that’s coming through from my patient base, we could, as opposed to trying to create that technology ourselves, bring an AI or analytics partner in and plug that technology into ours so that they could.
You know, pull that data and extrapolate it the way it needed to be extrapolated for the needs of that particular customer. So, you know we feel that we’ve developed an extremely robust data pipe, and we’re going to let customers tell us how they want to utilize AI and predictive analytics, and then we’ll partner with the right companies and technologies, as opposed to trying to create that ourselves.
[00:16:19] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Yeah. No, that’s a very interesting point because as you start using AI in healthcare. There are a lot of challenges, I would say, or you have to be aware of how those different architectures make a difference. So…
[00:16:33] Brendan Coughlin: right.
[00:16:34] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Obviously you have to have the vendors, the LLMs, sign the BAs so that there’s zero retention.
Those are not being used for training, but also as your data is huge. It’s not that you just use LLM to get the responses, just like we do in chat GPT, you have to have a, like, it’s a RAG architecture. How do you put the sensitive data in it? filter it. So, there are strategies that you have to do.
So I mean, yeah, I think it seems pretty interesting, like as you are going after this a partnership model where you just expose the data for those customers, obviously under those certain regulations, under HIPAA compliance, and then let the AI handle that and give the prediction or insights of that data. So that would
[00:17:20] Brendan Coughlin: be, yeah, exactly. The other, the other piece that once we became FedRAMP authorized that dramatically changed what we could or couldn’t do, relative to that data. ’cause to your point, I mean, HIPAA is one level, but FedRAMP is a much higher standard with regard to patient data. so we had to be very careful about what we thought about doing.
And the FedRAMP, the FedRAMP agency within the federal government is still trying to wrap their heads around how they are going to manage. AI and utilize it, or not utilize it in terms of, the, the companies that are within the FedRAMP marketplace. And, anyway, we’re still waiting for those standards to come out.
But, that was another reason for us not trying to integrate that type of technology because of the fact that FedRAMP was leery. At this point, or in the past year. Up to this point now I’m not, it’s unclear what’s gonna happen in the future, but you know, that’ll get sorted out at some point. Yeah.
[00:18:29] Ghazenfer Mansoor: So using AI in healthcare data is one thing, but now AI is everywhere. Are you using in your other business processes, in your development, in your QA, different processes where you’re not touching the PHI data, but still AI is empowering a lot of different organizations in achieving things much faster.
[00:18:52] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah, You know, particularly in the last year, we have a group that we outsource a lot of our development to. and they’re using various AI tools. We’re using AI tools now for the development of, you know, marketing materials and pitch decks and, you know, all sorts of creative materials that we.
Develop internally. You know, as well as strategy AI has gotten, you know, particularly good at, you know, being able to assist with verification of certain market strategies, and we’ve utilized it for that as well.
[00:19:32] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Cool. remote patient monitoring. It’s growing, obviously it picked up the momentum during COVID and now it’s rapidly growing.
Where do you see RPM going in the next five? Seven years.
[00:19:48] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah. I’d say that COVID in the last five years has definitely shined a spotlight on RPM. Telehealth is the thing that really exploded during COVID. And in our view, RPM is kind of that next, that next natural step. Beyond telehealth because it gives clinicians, doctors, nurses, whoever, the ability to now interact with their patient in a way that a simple video conference didn’t give them that ability. And you know, we’ve been somewhat surprised and COVID may have changed the dynamics of what was happening in the market. We really thought RPM was poised to explode back in 2016 17, when we were first developing the platform.
But you know, because of how, you know, the questions around how would it fit into workflows, how would it impact the business models of. The big hospital systems. It hasn’t been as quickly adopted as we hoped, but we’re looking for those organizations like the VA that are very interested in adopting it.
there’s a lot of very innovative new technologies, both on the hardware and software side that I think will help to quickly or more quickly advance the adoption of RPM. But I feel like we’re, as being a software only company, extremely well positioned to be able to capitalize on both of those areas of momentum because again, we can integrate pretty much any vital monitoring device and we can, embed or utilize other software technologies that we can integrate, with our platform as well.
[00:21:46] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Okay. Cool. So coming back to you, you are joining this company, I believe 2016 you said…
[00:21:55] Brendan Coughlin: Mm-hmm.
[00:21:56] Ghazenfer Mansoor: any thoughts or advice on people who are, let’s say, looking into a new market, is it better to start a new company versus acquiring or, or getting those top leadership roles? into those companies and grow faster? Like,
[00:22:17] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah, I mean, that’s a really good question. ’cause I’ve done both, as I said, had, if I knew then what I knew, what I know now about how quickly or slowly this market was going to develop and how long things like FedRAMP would take. We might not have done some things like we did, but here we are now.
We decided to go down the paths. We, we, we, we went, and this is the position we’re in. You know, I think it depends on the market you’re in. It depends on the momentum that that market has. It depends on the ability of you to be able to scale. And I’m talking really more in terms of should you start something versus get involved with something more established and existing.
But if you’re starting something, you need to have the ability to last if things take longer, such as the market developing than you originally anticipated. Everybody has a marketing plan or a market plan when they start a new company. and they have to make a lot of assumptions about where that market is today, about where it’s gonna be in the next year, three years, five years.
And some of those assumptions turn out to be right. A lot of the time those assumptions try not to be wrong. So I would say, you know, your ability to outlast your assumptions is critical in starting a market. You know, on the other hand you bring up the idea of does it make sense to, you know, join something or buy something that’s already existing?
I’d say that that is, Assuming the company that you are joining or starting already has product market fit, a, a pretty good and growing customer base, that allows you to, probably move more quickly, but you might be somewhat locked into, where that company’s already headed and, and if you’re already kind of moving down a path, it might be difficult, maybe not always, but might be more difficult to
change directions of that ship without disrupting what’s already happening in the company. So I’ve done both. I’ve been successful in both, and I’ve been unsuccessful in both. So it really just depends on, kind of circumstances of that, of that individual business. I wish I had a more clear answer, but, like I said, I’ve, I’ve, seen both and sometimes it’s worked and sometimes it hasn’t.
[00:24:52] Ghazenfer Mansoor: So I think what was one thing in the GTS that made an impact? obviously FedRAMP is, seems to be the, the major one. Was that the main turning point that helped on a growth or were there any other things that you did that became a key differentiator or helper?
[00:26:18] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah, I think as you said, FedRAMP was definitely the biggest one. You know, learning how to sell to the government is, I mean, that was all new, new to us. We didn’t have anybody inside our company that had experience selling to the government and selling to the federal government is extremely difficult you know, the VA most federal agencies are huge, slow moving bureaucracies with political implications.
There are fiefdoms, there are power struggles. and they, in our experience anyway, are very slow moving, particularly for newer companies. Now, if you’re a big established company like Microsoft or Google or Salesforce or Oracle, you might be able to move the needle more quickly.
But if you’re a young company trying to get into the government, it’s extremely difficult. We also were able to secure an enterprise wide contract with the VA, that took a number of years as well, and connect with the right people that could help influence that process because again, it’s typically not one person.
You have to know it’s multiple people and many, many steps that have to get taken and many pieces of. a puzzle that has to get fit together in order to secure the type of contract that we secured. So you know, going down that path and actually getting the contract was also I don’t know if it was as important as getting our FedRAMP, but it was certainly number two on the list.
And, now that we have both FedRAMP and a federal contract with the VA, anybody within the VA, anybody that’s in the VA will tell you that the two most difficult things to overcome are, you know, is there a contract in place? Because getting that contract can take years. And is it a secure purchase?
In other words, do they have FedRAMP? And if they do, they have funds available. Everybody says that’s like hitting the easy button. If they have the funds available, they can buy it. If they don’t, you know, if a company doesn’t have those two pieces, then it can literally take years before a purchase can happen, even if they wanna buy the product.
And have the money available to purchase it. If they don’t have a contract vehicle, they don’t have the authority to operate an ATO or FedRAMP, if it’s a software product, it’s a long, tedious process.
[00:28:50] Ghazenfer Mansoor: One of the last questions, what’s one mistake you made that completely changed how you evaluate opportunities today?
[00:28:59] Brendan Coughlin: Within GTS or just in my career?
[00:29:02] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Just in your career.
[00:29:03] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah. and this was not related to GTS, in another entity company that I started, I was allowed to be involved in our company. A person that was extremely intelligent, extremely impactful, but I didn’t trust and I allowed that person to be involved in our company longer than I should have. And even though they were very smart and had really a huge impact. On our company in a positive way.
There was a reason I didn’t trust him, and the reasons for me not trusting him came back to have a very negative consequence for the company. So my best advice would be to be very careful about the people you go into business with, and if you don’t trust somebody, or if you lose trust in somebody part ways with them immediately.
[00:30:15] Ghazenfer Mansoor: That’s really good advice. People are key, so
[00:30:18] Brendan Coughlin: absolutely, trust your gut, trust your instincts, trust your gut, you know, trust is a, it seems like an obvious thing. It seems very black and white, but sometimes it gets a little fuzzy. And I allowed something that should have been more black and white in my head because I knew, I knew in my head I did not trust this person yet I allowed myself to persuade myself that yeah, they were having an impact.
And yeah, they were smart and, you know, they were, having a really positive impact in many ways. I allowed that to influence my decision to keep that person in our company longer than I should have. And like I said, it came back to bite me very, very hard later down the road.
[00:31:10] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Absolutely. Look, culture is a big thing. The toxic people train all the energies and then, and your good people leave and as they say, either you are on the bus or off the bus.
[00:31:23] Brendan Coughlin: That’s
[00:31:23] Ghazenfer Mansoor: right. So the person, if not the right person, probably is already off the bus. So
[00:31:29] Brendan Coughlin: yeah, exactly. Good way to put it.
[00:31:30] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Okay. So if you were starting from scratch today in telehealth or anybody starting, what advice would you do? Like where should you foc, where would you focus,
[00:31:48] Brendan Coughlin: you know, if we did it all over again? boy, that’s a really good question. You know, the reality is maybe not telehealth so much, but RPM is still very much in its infancy and it is still unclear to me. Who the big winners in this space are going to be. If I were doing it again, you know, I might not go down the government path because I now know how long it takes, how expensive it is, and how difficult it is.
But at the same time. I’m gonna talk outta the other side of my mouth. We’re extremely well positioned relative to any other company trying to do what we’re doing. So even though we haven’t hit the home run yet, we’ve put in the time, we’ve put in the work, we’ve put in the investment to position ourselves for that home run would
I advise anybody else to go down the same path that we have? Maybe you better have a lot of money and a lot of time. But, you know, now that we’ve done it, I’d say we’re extremely well positioned. But, you know, if I could tell my eight year younger self that this is what it’s gonna take, I don’t know if I would’ve done it.
so I, I know I’m talking out of both sides of my mouth with that, but, it, it’s, it’s not clear to me what, what, it’s still not clear to me, and I’m not sure it’s clear to anybody what the best approach in the remote patient monitoring space is gonna be. Many people are taking a hardware first approach.
Many people are taking a software first approach. We’re one of the few companies taking the hardware agnostic FedRAMP approach. In fact, we’re the only one taking the FedRAMP approach, but I still believe that we will be enormously successful, but we won’t be the only one. There’ll be others too.
[00:33:49] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Good insight, man. This has been an incredible deep dive. Thanks for sharing your experiences. To wrap things up, I wanna pivot to our rapid fire round. I’ll just ask you a quick few questions. You don’t have to overthink. Just give your first quick instinct.
[00:34:05] Brendan Coughlin: Sure.
[00:34:06] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Best book for the founders and why.
[00:34:09] Brendan Coughlin: You know, I just recommended this to a friend of mine.
I still believe it and it’s two books. I believe Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and Robert Kiyosaki’s follow up book to Rich Dad, Poor Dad called The Cashflow Quadrant are absolute must reads for any Would-be Entrepreneur.
[00:34:26] Ghazenfer Mansoor: That’s one of the good books. I gave it to my son during COVID and he started investing in stocks afterward.
[00:34:33] Brendan Coughlin: Yeah,
[00:34:34] Ghazenfer Mansoor: So that’s definitely it. Morning routine coffee first or deep work first.
[00:34:39] Brendan Coughlin: I get up very early and I work out, so no, I don’t start with coffee. I start with heart, deep physical work. But, yeah, that’s my morning routine. I get up, I do a breathing meditation.
I do CrossFit five days a week, and then I come home and start my day. But I’m focused on mind and body first thing in the morning, and then I move on to work.
[00:35:07] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Okay. One industry you think is leap proof right now, like maybe resilient to disruption, long-term. Stable.
[00:35:17] Brendan Coughlin: Industry AI.
[00:35:20] Ghazenfer Mansoor: If you had to invest in an industry that you feel is structurally durable over the next 20 years, what would it be?
[00:35:29] Brendan Coughlin: It’d be AI, but finding those investments that are undervalued, is difficult.
[00:35:35] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Okay. Any favorite business tool you can’t live without?
[00:35:39] Brendan Coughlin: Now it’s chat, GPT.
[00:35:40] Ghazenfer Mansoor: One myth about entrepreneurship, you want to debunk
[00:35:44] Brendan Coughlin: It’s easy.
[00:35:46] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Biggest lesson that cost you the most money.
[00:35:48] Brendan Coughlin: Trusting somebody or allowing a person I didn’t trust to stay involved in my business.
[00:35:55] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Okay. Last question. What are your thoughts on any new opportunities or where the world is going that you can see in healthcare or AI or maybe combined? What’s the future?
[00:36:08] Brendan Coughlin: Now, I’m not clear where it’s gonna go, but I, I think there will be a huge utilization in AI in terms of being able to predict health outcomes based on the capturing of vital data. And again, I think we’re right at that intersection, which is one of the reasons why I think we’re so, we’re positioned so well.
I truly believe that. Utilizing our platform or a platform like ours, that if you can capture enough vital data from a patient, using AI and predictive analytics, you’ll be able to predict the lifetime, other health outcomes of that individual. And I think that the tools that we’ve created are going to truly revolutionize the healthcare industry.
[00:36:59] Ghazenfer Mansoor: So, Brendan, where can people find you?
[00:37:04] Brendan Coughlin: LinkedIn’s probably a good place. I don’t, I don’t spend that much time on other social media, so yeah, I’d say if somebody wanted to reach out to me, LinkedIn’s the great, the best place, Brendan Coughlin, and I, I think it’s, forward slash Brendan Coughlin.
[00:37:20] Ghazenfer Mansoor: Yeah, we’ll add it to our resources. We’ll also add your company website. Perfect. That way people have, will have both, Thanks a lot. Thanks for your insight. Thanks for your deep insights on this topic. It was great to have you. I’m sure our audiences will have a lot more questions and they can reach out to you through the mechanism that you share.
[00:37:42] Brendan Coughlin: Perfect. I look forward to it. Thanks Ghazenfer. I appreciate it. Thanks