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so I'm gonna assume that you're interested in my career as entrepreneur would think, MD So I do have other have other careers as well. Um, that career was initiated by my interest in, uh, in the global Health Humanitarian Assistance Arena, where I went and retrained myself later in life too, both on didactic training and in field based training throughout the entire world in both those areas. And as a consequence of that as a position and a scientist, I was looking for areas like it maybe provide some contributing aerials, and, ah, the one area that I was saw that I could be, uh, and of what was of most interest to me was the area of of clinical assessments. And what does that mean? In most areas of the world and the American middle income countries? There are very few physicians, and what's being done in those countries is using unskilled workers to provide health care. And the idea was to try to transfer my clinical knowledge onto a digital platform that allowed them to perform clinical assessments in a manner that I did it as a tradition. So that's how I got interested in. And that was the premise of starting think Andy
So, um, what I did was tried to think about a way that I could develop this type of technology. Eso I did a bunch of research and then sat out planning it individually how to go ahead and design it and to plan it. And I did that in talking with a number of different experts. And then when I came up with a plan, uh, I went ahead and found one of my colleagues, another er, critical care physician that I work with at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and then presented him what I was thinking of doing without him knowing any idea of what I was working on, cause I wanted to get his initial unbiased opinion of it. And he immediately said this. I think this could work. I think this could have major impact, and I'd like to do it with you. So that was actually happened initially on, and that's how No, the fact that I was able to immediately win him, particularly over in this I felt that maybe this was something worth doing. And so then I went ahead and start designing and thinking more about designing the type of product in. They're learning how to go ahead and to do that
so there's on unlimited amount of challenges for me particularly. I am an academic, uh, physician. I'm a position scientists, and I'm a clinical physician. I'm not a business person. And, ah, one of the challenges I needed to overcome was the fact that I'm attend University of Vermont that my intellectual property eyes owned, half of it is owned by the university of her body. So I moved forward with disclosing that type of discoveries I was looking to develop. And then the university had to make an assessment if it wanted to retain it, utilize us, utilize that technology and patent it. They elected to waver all the intellectual property, excuse me, and then on commercialisation rights. And then I was faced on what to do with it. And that's how I decided to go ahead and form. Think Andy as a for profit, uh, benefit corporation. United States