Curative CEO Fred Turner: Why Your Next Hire is an 'Agent Supervisor'
Curative CEO Fred Turner cut $600K from Salesforce and 80% of SaaS with AI. He explains why companies will shrink, humans will manage AI, and UBI is coming.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
With Harry Stebbings, Fred Turner · Sunday, July 19, 2026
Fred Turner, CEO of Curative, shares the incredible journey of scaling a COVID testing business to $5 billion in revenue before pivoting to health insurance, now valued at $1.3 billion. He dives into Curative's aggressive adoption of AI, claiming an 80% reduction in SaaS spend, including the cancellation of a $600,000 Salesforce contract, and discusses the broader implications for the future of work and the US healthcare system.
Key takeaways
- Curative slashed its SaaS spend by 80% and canceled a $600,000 Salesforce contract by leveraging AI for back-office automation. Read more →
- Curative canceled its $600,000 annual Salesforce contract, replacing it with an AI-driven internal CRM built in just two months that is working better. Read more →
- The US healthcare payer market is ultra-consolidated, controlled by just "four large players," which then forces hospital systems to consolidate purely to survive negotiations. Read more →
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