#117 Dr Ben Maruthappu On Raising $400M for Cera Care

Big Picture Medicine

Dr Ben Maruthappu is the the Co-founder and CEO of Cera Care; a digitally-enabled social care company which has raised over $400M dollars. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2020.

0:00 Intro

0:47 Ben's story

6:10 How to have good ideas, at the right time

12:14 Good decisions Ben made with Cera to scale

21:07 Is the US greener pastures?

28:10 What healthtech can learn from fintech, ridesharing and food delivery

30:17 Anti-lessons from other industries

33:53 How do you stop driving becoming toxic

36:13 Are founders olympic athletes who don't deserve work-life balance?

38:31 Are you full of sh*t? What are your real motives?

41:19 Are successful founders happy people?

43:30 Mo money mo problems

46:51 The power of vulnerability vs the magnetism of certainty

52:21 Networking advice

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