Issue No. 37Week ending Sunday, September 13, 2026434 episodes · 1825 articles
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Fred Turner appears in 1 full episode we cover on 20VC with Harry Stebbings. Below is what each conversation covered, with a key takeaway per article. Every quote in the articles is verbatim and timestamped to the source video.

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We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO

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.

  • Curative slashed its SaaS spend by 80% and canceled a $600,000 Salesforce contract by leveraging AI for back-office automation. Read →
  • 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 →
  • 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 →
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