Fred Turner is the Founder and CEO @ Curative, one of the wildest stories in tech. Fred scaled a COVID testing business from $0 to $5BN in revenue and took the team from 7 to 7,000 employees in just 9 months. They did over 206,000 COVID tests in a single day and signed contracts in the 100s of $Ms with several of the largest states. Today, Curative is a unicorn health insurance business taking on the incumbents for one of the largest markets in healthcare. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:07 – Meet Fred Turner: thrill of winning vs. fear of losing 02:01 – Why he couldn't have built this business in the UK 03:40 – From cattle genetics to sepsis to Covid (the origin story) 07:54 – Pivoting into human diagnostics and at-home STD testing 14:43 – Founding Curative on a sepsis thesis, before Covid changed everything 18:44 – Covid hits: pivoting overnight into mass testing 27:03 – Building an "orthogonal supply chain" to scale testing 10x 30:44 ...