What if your MedTech solves a real problem, shows great data… and still never gets used?

🔍 What You’ll Learn:

Most STEM professionals focus on building something that works.

But in MedTech, success is decided by something far less obvious, whether your product fits into a complex system of people, incentives, and decisions.

In this episode, Angelique pulls together insights from six founders who are all solving very different problems, from oxygen delivery to diagnostics, implants, and digital health.

What emerges is a clear pattern of what actually moves a product forward, and what quietly blocks it.

By the end of this episode, you will:

• Learn how the triangle of value shapes every MedTech decision, clinical outcome, convenience, and cost

• Understand why different stakeholders want different things, and how that creates friction in adoption

• Discover what it really takes to build the right team and tell a story that gets funded

This is where you stop thinking like a scientist solving a problem, and start thinking like someone building something that will actually be used.

Press play to see how six founders navigated the reality of MedTech, and what you can apply to your own path.

🧠 About the Guest:

In this solo episode, Angelique Greco distils lessons from conversations with six MedTech founders across devices, diagnostics, and digital health.

Through their stories, she breaks down the patterns behind products that move forward, and those that stall, showing how success is shaped by the system, not just the science.

📌 Episode Highlights:

00:00 Why great MedTech can fail despite strong science

02:00 The triangle of value explained: outcome, convenience, cost

04:00 ShanShan Wang: one product, three conflicting definitions of value

07:30 Dharmica Mistry: you are not building for the patient

10:00 Anushi Rajapaksa: what changes when you build for the end user

13:00 Ida Tin: creating a new category to be understood

16:00 Ben Wright: when incentives block adoption

21:00 Why the team is the real risk investors look at

24:00 The myth of the scientist-CEO and what actually works

26:00 Venture studios and alternative ways to build a company

30:00 Maryam Parviz: building a team that complements you

34:00 Why storytelling is not optional in MedTech

39:00 Creating a market when none exists

43:00 Final recap: triangle, team, and story

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• Mimetic MedTech Foundry

• Roam Technologies

• BCAL Diagnostics

• Misty

• Clue

• Xeloda

• SDIP Innovations

🎧 Quick fire chat episode:

https://shows.acast.com/multiple-hats/episodes/69ad4b747036d73902764808

🤔 Reflection Time:

1. If your work succeeds technically, what could still stop it from being used?
2. Who are the real decision-makers in your space, and what do they optimise for?
3. Are you building something that works, or something that fits?

Want to craft a career story that opens doors?

I help STEMM professionals speak with clarity, confidence, and purpose and show up as thought leaders —so the right opportunities find you.

📬 Let’s connect: angeliquegreco.com.au | LinkedIn

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What if the thing holding your career back isn’t your skills, but the beliefs you keep repeating?

🔍 What You’ll Learn:

Most STEM professionals don’t lack capability. They lack translation.

This short fire chat cuts straight through the common beliefs that keep people stuck in roles that don’t reflect what they’re actually capable of doing.

• Why “I’m just a scientist” is a dangerous story to keep telling yourself
• What working smart actually looks like when time and money are on the line
• How to define what “good enough” is, so you stop waiting and start moving

This is the shift from technical expert to someone who can shape opportunities, not just respond to them.

If you’re tired of waiting until you feel “ready,” play this episode and challenge the beliefs keeping you stuck.

🧠 About the Guest:

Ben Wright is a MedTech investor and operator who works with clinicians and scientists to build real companies, not just ideas.

As co-founder of Mimetic MedTech Foundry, he helps translate research into viable businesses by bringing in the right skills, structure, and strategy early on.

His perspective is grounded in reality, what actually works when money, time, and risk are involved.

📌 Episode Highlights:

00:00 The beliefs that quietly hold STEM professionals back

01:30 What a venture studio actually does differently

03:30 Why “I’m just a scientist” limits your career

04:30 The two key skills scientists need outside the lab: storytelling and customer understanding

05:50 What working smart actually means in startups

06:40 Why “perfect” is the wrong goal in the real world

07:40 How to define what’s good enough to move forward

08:30 The real cost of starting something, time, relationships, and risk

10:00 Why clarity on your path matters more than jumping into a startup

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• 🎧 Full Interview with Ben Wright https://shows.acast.com/multiple-hats/episodes/69ce18e3057b5949959db955
• (Deep dive into MedTech, strategy, and why great technologies fail)
• Mimetic MedTech Foundry

🤔 Reflection Time:

1. What belief about your role or identity is quietly keeping you playing small?
2. Where are you waiting for “perfect” when “good enough” would already move you forward?
3. If you looked at your career like a system, what skill or gap would you fill next instead of pushing harder?

Want to craft a career story that opens doors?

I help STEMM professionals speak with clarity, confidence, and purpose and show up as thought leaders —so the right opportunities find you.

📬 Let’s connect: angeliquegreco.com.au | LinkedIn

⭐️ Help More People Reinvent Their Careers

If you enjoyed this episode, please:

• ✅ Leave a quick ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 🙏
• ♻️ Share it with a friend who's questioning their path in STEM

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Why do some of the most brilliant medical technologies never reach patients, even when the science works?

🔍 What You’ll Learn:

If you’ve ever thought “build a great technology and the rest will follow,” this episode will challenge that fast. Because in healthcare, the system decides what survives, not just the science.

This conversation breaks down what actually makes or kills a MedTech company, and what you need to understand if you want to move from technical expertise to real-world impact.

• Why clinical workflow, incentives, and reimbursement matter more than your innovation
• The “value triangle” every MedTech product must satisfy to survive
• How to stop trying to be everything in a startup, and build the right team early

This is where a STEM career shifts from “doing the work” to understanding how the system works, and how to influence it.

If you want to think like a strategist, not just a scientist, play this episode and start seeing where great ideas actually fail.

🧠 About the Guest:

Ben Wright is a MedTech investor, advisor, and co-founder of Mimetic MedTech Foundry.

He started in biological sciences and hand transplant research, then moved into the business side after seeing firsthand that great technology alone doesn’t guarantee success.

Today, he works at the intersection of science, clinical practice, and business, helping turn early-stage ideas into viable companies by building the right structure around them.

📌 Episode Highlights:

00:00 Why great medical technologies fail despite strong science

03:00 From researcher to startup builder, the first reality check

06:30 Why accelerators don’t prepare founders for real MedTech timelines

10:00 Should scientific founders be CEOs?

14:00 The “value triangle”: clinical outcome, convenience, cost

18:00 The oral chemotherapy example, when incentives block better care

21:00 Why human behavior and workflow kill adoption

24:00 When better tech loses to incumbent business models

28:00 True disruption, and why it’s harder than you think

33:00 Why Australia struggles to fund MedTech innovation

38:00 What a venture studio actually does differently

46:00 A real MedTech failure story, and what it teaches about risk

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• 🎧 Quick Fire Chat with Ben Wright
• https://shows.acast.com/multiple-hats/episodes/69ad4b747036d73902764808
• Mimetic MedTech Foundry
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🤔 Reflection Time:

1. Where are you focusing only on the “technology” in your work, and ignoring the system it needs to fit into?
2. If you stepped back, what part of your work is actually about influence, not execution?
3. What would change if you stopped trying to do everything yourself and built around your strengths instead?

This episode is a reality check.

Not to discourage you, but to show you where the real leverage is.

Want to craft a career story that opens doors?

I help STEMM professionals speak with clarity, confidence, and purpose and show up as thought leaders —so the right opportunities find you.

📬 Let’s connect: angeliquegreco.com.au | LinkedIn

⭐️ Help More People Reinvent Their Careers

If you enjoyed this episode, please:

• ✅ Leave a quick ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 🙏
• ♻️ Share it with a friend who's questioning their path in STEM

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