#5 - Darcy Bachert: Farm to Founder

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Hosted by Giovanni Lauricella, in this episode we interview Darcy Bachert, Founder and CEO of Prolucid. Darcy shares his journey from growing up on a dairy farm to starting his own software development company. Giovanni and Darcy discuss what it takes to an entrepreneur, how service providers find success, how software and AI are transforming the MedTech Industry, nuclear technology in Canada, and much more!

You can learn more about Prolucid and the services they offer at www.prolucid.ca

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:41 Dairy Farms
• 6:41 Early Entrepreneurship
• 14:25 Farmer to Software Engineer
• 22:21 Will AI replace people?
• 30:13 Becoming an Entrepreneur
• 36:22 Pig Castration
• 38:42 Nuclear in Canada
• 44:07 Why focus on MedTech and Nuclear?
• 52:28 MedTech Malta for Solution Providers
• 1:00:43 Hugging Trees
• 1:04:00 The Human Side of Business Development
• 1:08:48 Strategic Software Partner in the MedTech Industry
• 1:16:35 How do you build an app?
• 1:21:04 Customer Relationship
• 1:27:05 MedTech in Canada
• 1:34:44 Developing Relationships Through Conferences
• 1:47:00 Transitioning from Technical Expert to CEO
• 1:55:42 Firing Yourself
• 2:00:58 What makes good code?
• 2:04:49 Why We Do It
• 2:13:59 Golf
• 2:18:02 The Software Revolution of the MedTech Industry
• 2:22:47 US-Canada Relations