[personZ]

>Silicon Valley can afford better software people than labs can.

LabCorp made (income) $600 million last year. Quest made $1.5 billion.

They can afford teams of very capable developers. They can have the best software, the best presentation, slick mobile apps, speedy information systems.

They don't not because they can't afford it, but because they don't want to afford it. As is the case with many of these companies that get disrupted by tech startups, they see it as a cost center and minimize it.

Software rules the world. Any business that doesn't adapt to this will see strange little upstarts steal all of their thunder.