Exhibit 99.1
Transcript: Better Therapeutics CEO Interview with RedChip
Filmed on Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Aired on Saturday, March 2, 2024
Dave 00:00
All right. Thanks for being with us today.
00:02
Well, thanks for having me. I’m excited to be here.
Dave 00:04
Well, we’re excited to represent you. You’re the CEO of Better Therapeutics. And you have a phenomenal background. You’re a former Goldman Sachs alum, you’ve had companies you’ve been involved in at a very high level that have sold for billions of dollars. I want to start today, with your giving us a brief background on yourself, and your approach to treating the cardio metabolic diseases. Yeah,
00:34
I mean, you’ve summarized pretty much my own background, I spent about a third of my career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, focusing on M&A and Corporate Finance for clients in many different industries. I was then hired away by one of my clients, which is a company called Exelixis. I went there, I became CFO, was with the company for over 10 years. It’s a vastly successful company that currently trades on NASDAQ with a market cap of about six and a half billion dollars. I went on from there became part of the first five employees of another healthcare company called Myovant Sciences. I helped the company go public in what became the largest biotech IPO in 2016. And that company got sold for around $3 billion to a Japanese pharma company a couple years ago. And I then went on to Better Therapeutics as CEO, because I think this company has the opportunity to have a massive impact in some of the largest indications in healthcare and in doing so resolve one of the biggest unsolved problems in healthcare, which is escalating cost. And you know, as a company, Better Therapeutics is a digital health company, with a fundamentally different approach to treating diabetes and other cardio metabolic conditions. And we’ve taken this different approach, because the approach we’ve taken to date as an industry is failing. The healthcare industry to date has largely been focused on mitigating symptoms to treat metabolic diseases, as opposed to addressing the root cause. And we aim to change this and we aim to change this at scale. You know, as a society, we’ve spent billions of dollars on developing drugs that lower blood sugar, lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and so on. But we spend very little to address why these markers are elevated in the first place. And Better Therapeutics was founded on the hypothesis, that software can deliver behavioral therapy to treat a health condition by targeting the underlying behaviors that cause it.
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