Dr. Greg Sommer, PhD is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Sandstone Diagnostics, a Sanfrancisco Bay Area diagnostic and digital health company developing sophisticated connected wellness products that allow consumers to measure, monitor, and improve key health markers at home. Sandstone’s Trak® Male Fertility Testing System allows men to measure, track, and improve sperm count at home to boost a couple’s chances of conception.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Founders of company Greg Interned for
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We were incredibly naive about how hard it would be, how long it would take, how much money it would take, our initial projections were way off and I think the earliest lesson learned was focus, everyone kind of says that as a cliché I think you need to focus on a few things, I don’t think people really understand how important that is until you’re in it”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life Book by Scott AdamsFavourite Quote:
“Risk something or forever sit with your dreams”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Reddit – is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Reddit’s registered community members can submit content such as text posts or direct links.
Also mentioned
- In-N-Out Burger – At In N Out Burger, quality is everything That s why in a world where food is often over processed, prepackaged and frozen, In N Out makes everything the old fashioned way
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“You need to find your focus and that’s not an easy question to figure out so if you’re going to be an entrepreneur buy in from day one that you’re going to have to focus on something that’s extremely concentrated and narrow and try to do it very well”…[Listen for More]
More About Dr. Greg Sommer:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.” Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dr. Greg Sommer:
“There’s a burger chain out here on the west coast called in and out Burger, maybe that’s another US reference you haven’t heard of but in and out burger is widely popular, anytime you drive by one cars are 15 deep, the place is packed it doesn’t matter what time of day it is, people just flock from all over to come get these burgers, and they only sell burgers, you look at all these other fast food chains that expanded into all these other things and in and out burger said we’re not going to do that, we’re going to stay private, we’re going to one thing and do it well, we’re going to make the best burger that you can get and they’ve just continued to be a cult favourite and a wildly successful business and I think there’s a lot of nice learning’s there that you don’t need to get into chicken and fish and all these other things to be successful, do one thing and do it well”
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