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Partner Path
Partner Path is a podcast exploring the venture capital and startup ecosystem through a younger perspective. We feature candid conversations with early-stage founders, operators, and emerging investors—offering insight into everything from sourcing and investment strategies to product execution and go-to-market lessons. Whether you’re an aspiring investor, founder, or just curious about VC, tune in for an inside look at the industry.
Partner Path
E51: Automating Healthcare Operations with Trey Holterman (Tennr)
This week, we have Trey Holterman, Co-Founder and CEO of Tennr, on the show. Tennr automates manual tasks in healthcare operations using a proprietary LLM and has raised over $61 million in VC funding from Lightspeed, a16z, Y Combinator, and others.
Trey covers his journey from captaining the Stanford rowing team to navigating improv comedy and building Tennr. We dive into how Tennr defines success through improved patient experience and why hard problems attract great engineers.
Trey also unpacks why his team avoids buzzwords like “AI”, despite having a clear real-world application of a LLM.
Episode Chapters:
- How rowing influenced Trey - 2:33
- Building leadership skills - 4:15
- Dabbling in standup comedy - 8:04
- Tennr's founding story - 10:10
- How Tennr delivers ROI to customers - 13:25
- Hard problems attract great engineers - 17:03
- RaeLM (proprietary vision model) - 22:06
- Positioning as Healthcare Cowboys - 26:43
- Summoning God through a machine - 31:14
- The future patient journey - 34:01
- Quick fire round - 41:47
As always, feel free to contact us at partnerpathpodcast@gmail.com. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.
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