by Mark Garver, June 2nd, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In September 2020, during COVID, I received a message on LinkedIn, not an invite, simply a message from Ewelina Woloszyn wanting to schedule a ZOOM call. Like many of you, I get LinkedIn requests, but this was different\u2026 it was simply a request for a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The call was amazing to me, a person from Poland reaching out wanting to make Healthcare like a Trusted Family Friend again. She had a vision, but wanted to develop a team to help deliver on her dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long story short she asked me to join her as a co-founder of AI Healthcare Capital. At the time I was heavily invested in my start up using AI and creating self-healing farms, but COVID had impacted virtually all of my customers. I had a choice at that point\u2026 HEADS or TAILS\u2026 I flipped the coin and the coin toss ended up with me joining her on her journey, that\u2019s when I won the coin toss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why the reference to the coin toss? Watch the movie secretariat, where Phips thought he won the coin toss and got the horse he wanted. The team I left my company to felt in their heart they won the coin toss and they have been successful, but I won, because the horse I chose knows how to run the long race, to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who is this horse, her name is Ewelina Woloszyn, she just somehow knows how to win, by running the long race! When I joined her, she wasn\u2019t out to raise money as a first-time manager, instead she built an incredible team that has been together since 2020, working together and learning the market and the pain points in that market. As a team, we have been building models on potential investments since October 2020, our virtual investments saw three unicorns succeed as of March of this year and many others having successful exits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back to the coin toss, at first I felt like Penny who won the coin toss and believed in her horse, later named Secretariat, and then I realized I had to be her (Ewelina’s) trainer, I knew she could win, she was born that way. So as any trainer would do, I put her out there to see what she could do! She already knew how to run her race, so I was all in. How could she lose, she had built an incredible team around her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n