NEW: Brad Gerstner (
@altcap) & Jason Chang (
@yoweichang) are trying to turn a $100 CAC heart scan into the โmammogram for the heart.โ
At the All-In Summit, Brad brought his mobile coronary artery calcium CT scanner to screen attendees & make the case for preventing heart attacks at scale.
Heart disease kills ~800,000 Americans annually. Brad believes scaling CAC scans to 40M people a year could save 50,000 lives & $20B in government healthcare costs annually.
Rob Goldberg joined us to explain why the mission is deeply personal.
His brother Dave Goldberg, married to Sheryl Sandberg, died suddenly at 47 from undiagnosed heart disease, leaving behind their two young children. Just five months earlier, he had passed a running EKG.
โMy brother had passed a running EKG five months before he dropped dead from heart disease, from undiagnosed heart disease.โ
Daveโs death became the foundation for Sandbergโs book Option B, co-written with Adam Grant, about grief, resilience & rebuilding life after devastating loss.
Now Brad Gerstner, Rob Goldberg, Jason Chang & the rest of the besties, & the team behind the Center for Heart Attack Prevention want to prevent more families from experiencing the same thing, pushing for earlier detection, broader access to CAC scans & changes to the standard of care.
We go inside the mobile scanner & discuss:
โบ Why Brad calls CAC scanning the โmammogram for the heartโ
โบ The Goldberg familyโs experience with undiagnosed heart disease
โบ Why cholesterol & traditional testing can miss cardiovascular risk
โบ What CAC scores actually tell you
โบ Difference between a calcium CT scan & an angiogram
โบ Why Brad bought his own mobile scanner
โบ The โbuy one, give oneโ model for expanding access
โบ Bradโs push to bring CAC screening to 40 million Americans a year
โบ How a roughly $100 scan could potentially prevent thousands of premature deaths
โบ Why Brad believes health data gives people the power to take action
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00:00 Brad Gerstner & Rob Goldberg
00:10 CAC Scanner Moonshot
01:53 Robโs Family Tragedy
04:39 Center Missions and Prevention
05:37 Why Cholesterol Became Standard
10:07 Overcoming Fear and Insurance
12:29 CAC vs Angiogram Guidance
14:43 Where the Trailer Goes Next
16:40 Inside the Scanner Demo
20:48 Why Labs Miss Risk
23:27 Final Call to Action