Afrezza, Iphone, IPAD, Creative Monopoly, and Zero to One
Apr 1, 2015 17:35:15 GMT -5
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Post by compound26 on Apr 1, 2015 17:35:15 GMT -5
Just a few random thoughts for your consideration:
1. "creative monopoly" and "zero to one"
Wonder if any of your guys have read Peter Thiel's book "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future". In it he basically says he likes companies that create a monopoly on a market (like Google to search engine and Apple to tablet market). What he likes is "Creative Monopoly", i.e., you create a new product that is at least 10 times better than the existing completing product and therefore creates a dominant market position. For example, IPAD is at least 10 times better than the other existing tablets (there were some attempts at that time). Google's search engine and Apple's Iphone were similarly at least 10 times better than the other existing products. The same was true for Paypal (for which Peter Thiel was a co-founder).
This is what Peter Thiel called "Creative Monopoly" and "Zero to One" (you create something totally new or vastly better).
Looking at Afrezza from that angle and thinking about the advantages of Afrezza that Al Mann has envisioned, and Sam and other people at TD have summarized:
Convenience;
Less hypo;
Fast action;
More "time-in-the-zone".
Life style change (more freedom and live like a non-diabetic);
[quote" Afrezza seems to act in a way more conducive to normal living." and "That's the biggest plus in all of this for diabetics."]
[quote "But with Afrezza I have the same degree of control (while early in the learning process) essentially zero fear of hypoglycemia, and diabetes management takes up about 2% of my thought process instead of 50%".]
One would wonder whether Afrezza is at least 10 times better (to other RAAs) and therefore is comparable to Iphone (to other early smart phones) and IPAD (to other early tablets). Maybe Afrezza is in that sense a "creative monopoly" and "zero to one" product just like Iphone and IPAD.
2. Afrezza - from Patient to Doctors
Wonder if any of your guys have read Eric Topol M.D.'s book "The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands".
To quote the introduction of the book on Amazon:
"With smartphones in hand, we [the patient] are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable real-time, real-world research on massive populations."
I believe this is what is happening with users of Afrezza. The users who post blogs and threads on TD and Twitter in my mind definitely know Afrezza and the best ways to use it than their doctors (at least in most cases).
1. "creative monopoly" and "zero to one"
Wonder if any of your guys have read Peter Thiel's book "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future". In it he basically says he likes companies that create a monopoly on a market (like Google to search engine and Apple to tablet market). What he likes is "Creative Monopoly", i.e., you create a new product that is at least 10 times better than the existing completing product and therefore creates a dominant market position. For example, IPAD is at least 10 times better than the other existing tablets (there were some attempts at that time). Google's search engine and Apple's Iphone were similarly at least 10 times better than the other existing products. The same was true for Paypal (for which Peter Thiel was a co-founder).
This is what Peter Thiel called "Creative Monopoly" and "Zero to One" (you create something totally new or vastly better).
Looking at Afrezza from that angle and thinking about the advantages of Afrezza that Al Mann has envisioned, and Sam and other people at TD have summarized:
Convenience;
Less hypo;
Fast action;
More "time-in-the-zone".
Life style change (more freedom and live like a non-diabetic);
[quote" Afrezza seems to act in a way more conducive to normal living." and "That's the biggest plus in all of this for diabetics."]
[quote "But with Afrezza I have the same degree of control (while early in the learning process) essentially zero fear of hypoglycemia, and diabetes management takes up about 2% of my thought process instead of 50%".]
One would wonder whether Afrezza is at least 10 times better (to other RAAs) and therefore is comparable to Iphone (to other early smart phones) and IPAD (to other early tablets). Maybe Afrezza is in that sense a "creative monopoly" and "zero to one" product just like Iphone and IPAD.
2. Afrezza - from Patient to Doctors
Wonder if any of your guys have read Eric Topol M.D.'s book "The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands".
To quote the introduction of the book on Amazon:
"With smartphones in hand, we [the patient] are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable real-time, real-world research on massive populations."
I believe this is what is happening with users of Afrezza. The users who post blogs and threads on TD and Twitter in my mind definitely know Afrezza and the best ways to use it than their doctors (at least in most cases).
