[wahsd]

Let's be real, the vast majority, even much of what is and comes out of YC is barely more than what used to be snake oil salesmen and infomercial scam artists. (sorry, YCers, for causing that cognitive dissonance, but I would also like YC to focus on primary products that produce value in and of themselves and not just as, e.g., a dependency on something else)

There is maybe some marginal streamlining or process improvement possible, but you can already get blood drawn and a little while later have the results accessible on a mobile device. Sure, maybe the blood can be processed faster and those results should be available sooner and available to outside parties so you can use various apps and services; but that a policy and political problem, not really a technology challenge.

This company is just another one of those paper tiger companies... or maybe paper unicorn is a better metaphor ... who make something that is wholly unnecessary and the only thing they are good at is manufacturing buzz. Their technology solution seems to be an unnecessarily complex solution to a simple problem. We don't need to "know what your body is doing so you can live a healthier life", we just need to eat better and exercise far more. It's that focus on symptoms rather than causes that annoys the heck out of me. But I guess they have learned from the perpetual dependency model. You don't get to be a paper billionaire by telling people to stop being unhealthy, you become a paper billionaire by selling unnecessary stuff.

[pbreit]

"make blood tests simple, timely, unalarming and cheap" sounds pretty valuable to me. I suspect there are billions of people who rarely, if ever, have blood tests (impoverished areas, children). And then in developed areas, I could easily see blood tests becoming a daily thing (or multiples daily). Athletes might do them every few minutes. Etc.