Niko Skievaski. He’s the co-founder of Redox, a modern API for healthcare. He also used to do some work at Epic. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Moments of Magic What CEO do you follow? – Judith Faulkner Favorite online tool? — Calendly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Niko would have asked himself to start something rather than working in a big bank   Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:40 – Nathan introduces Niko to the show 00:59 – Redox connects applications to software developers 01:04 – Redox’s business model is licensing connections to various healthcare systems 01:25 – Niko deals with healthcare because he believes it is important 01:33 – Niko has also talked to developers that made an impact on patients’ lives 01:46 – “From our perspective, we really see a technology innovation healthcare something that is absolutely needed” 02:20 – Redox charges software developers and software developers charge the healthcare system 02:38 – Redox initially becomes a sub-contractor of software vendors 03:21 – Redox charges per the number of connections a developer has in the healthcare system which is a monthly model 03:48 – Depending on the interface, the charge changes a bit 03:52 – It is a SaaS model 04:08 – Most developers connect to 1-3 healthcare systems 04:15 – Each connection system is around a thousand dollars 04:25 – Redox was founded in 2014 04:34 – Niko was in the corporate world and was working at Wells Fargo 04:46 – Niko went to Epic to get his hands on data because he studied Economics and wanted to understand what he could do to improve the healthcare data 05:07 – When Niko got to Epic, they didn’t actually have the data 05:17 – Niko learned a lot from Epic about the provider workflow 05:29 – Since healthcare is digitized, the challenge is how to get the data out of the cloud to software developers 05:43 – Niko’s CTO and co-founder, James, was helping startups hook up with various healthcare systems 05:59 – The idea of Redox is to make an engine that can scale across multiple health systems 06:16 – Redox was bootstrapped and has raised capital 06:30 – Niko and his co-founder have started different companies until they decided to do Redox 06:50 – They brought in another co-founder to round up Redox 07:00 – Niko and his co-founders worked in a co-working space and saved some money from their consulting gigs 07:21 – Redox raised a small seed round of $350K in 2014, then they hired some developers 07:40 – The co-founders were only getting $35K each when they were starting 08:05 – They made sacrifices in order to start Redox 08:51 – They have to convince themselves that if things don’t work, they just have to get a job 09:11 – Entrepreneurs can easily get a job 09:30 – Redox has raised a couple of rounds 09:40 – The first application they had can determine the amount of blood loss by taking a picture 10:06 – It took Redox 10 months to get live with their first customer 10:17 – Redox raised their round A early 10:29 – The developer community was really excited and was supportive of Redox 10:52 – Redox was getting 1K MRR from their first customer 11:00 – The first round was a priced round 11:11 – You can raise based on your traction or based on potential 11:28 – Redox was based on potential 11:38 – Redox’s pitch to their investors 11:40 – Digital health is one of the fastest growing spaces for venture capital 11:44 – There are too many companies trying to start something innovative in the healthcare space 11:47 – The common problem that they have is sharing data with the legacy system 12:10 – Redox really has a great team 12:30 – It’s not about the MRR, it’s about the potential of working with the army of software developers who are innovating in this space 12:53 – Redox’s marketing strategy is getting the developers first, then the developers will drag Redox to the healthcare system 13:10 – Valuation 13:24 – Redox has closed a