Enterprise Nation: The 99% Club – The Small Business Podcast
Big corporations have no problem getting air time. But what about the other 99% of all businesses?
Hosted by Enterprise Nation CEO Aaron Asadi, The 99% Club is about what it really means to run a small business – from the brilliance to the boring, the magic to the mundane.
Each episode features raw, honest, human conversations with founders from across the small business world. No jargon. No buzzwords. Just real people talking about the things that matter:
– Why they started
– What keeps them going
– What’s falling apart
– What they wish someone had told them earlier
From publishing houses built on philosophy degrees to business plans sketched out between burnout cycles, this show is a home for truth-telling, not hustle culture.
Whether you’re a startup dreamer, side hustler, or seasoned business owner wondering if it’s just you (it’s not) – you’re in the 99% Club. You belong here.
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Enterprise Nation: The 99% Club – The Small Business Podcast
Episode 7: Photon Therapeutics — Overtaking Antibiotics in the Fight Against Infection, with Dr Mark Leddy
What if a beam of safe UVC light could do the job of antibiotics for infections?
In this episode of The 99% Club – The Small Business Podcast, Enterprise Nation’s Aaron Asadi talks with Dr Mark Leddy, CEO of Photon Therapeutics, about a handheld UVC device designed to treat eye infections without accelerating antimicrobial resistance.
Mark explains how a precise UVC wavelength disrupts bacteria, fungi and viruses at the corneal surface, why bugs develop resistance to antibiotics and even share resistance genes with other bugs, and how a startup with limited resources is rolling out devices to veterinary ophthalmology first while preparing the path to human clinical use.
Inside the episode:
- Why antibiotic resistance is rising and why “reserve” drugs are not the long term answer
- How targeted UVC can reduce or replace antibiotics in eye infections and why eyes are the ideal first use case
- Early real world results from veterinary clinics across multiple continents
- Recruiting A-players in a resource-constrained startup and shipping before “perfect”
- The surprising regulatory route that lets a tiny team get to market and iterate fast
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