The Mad Scientist Who Wants to Change Healthcare w/ Andrew Herr (Fount)

Andrew Herr is the founder and CEO of Fount, a health and performance advising platform trusted by the world’s top performers. He started Fount to make cutting edge performance insights more widely available and change the quality of health outcomes for all.
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Fount is backed by Founders Fund, Elysian Park, and Allen & Co to apply, and scale, their expertise from optimizing the minds and bodies of US Military, professional sports teams, and leading business executives.

Andrew is a graduate of Health Physics, Microbiology & Immunology, and Security Studies from Georgetown University. He was honored as a Mad Scientist by the U.S. Army (twice) and as a Fellow by the Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program, the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative, and others.

In this episode, Aaron and Andrew talk about how he can change human health and performance at scale, how he helped the Department of Defense allocate millions of Dollars towards the optimization of the military, and how structures, data & machine learning make this the perfect time to build a disruptive personalized health company.

Andrew Herr’s Challenge: Run experiments on yourself. Pick an experiment for the next two weeks – nutrition like decreasing sugar, cutting down meat, or wearing blue light blocking glasses before bed – and observe if it affects you.

Timestamps:
00:00 Who is Andrew Herr?
01:49 How did you decide to take this project?
07:03 Experiments and Supplementation in US Military
09:30 How did you think about scaling your business?
12:20 Andrew Herr on using his personal resources in helping other people
15:05 Realizing the goals of Fount
17:17 The benefits of having world-class staff
19:27 How does Fount work?
22:15 3 Elements that they use in Fount
26:52 What is the pillar of Andrew Herr's experimentation
30:31 The problems that Fount is facing in terms of optimization and subscriptions
33:45 Is it hard to impress Andrew Herr?
36:15 Andrew Herr's challenge to the people