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Tim Veron
Founder & CEO at Vively
Tim Veron is a seasoned entrepreneur in the health technology sector, with a focus on disrupting the traditional health system. He is the founder of Vively, a company dedicated to revolutionizing personalized metabolic health using Continuous Glucose Monitoring technology. Under his leadership, Vively experienced rapid growth, reaching $2M in revenue within 8 months of launch, showcasing the demand for CGM in the market.
Prior to Vively, Tim successfully acquired and transformed Natural Therapy Pages into a thriving subscription-based business, solidifying its position as a leading natural health and wellness platform across Australia, NZ, and the UK. Through strategic acquisitions like Honee.com.au, he drove subscriptions and user engagement, connecting consumers and students with a wide array of health professionals and courses.
Tim Veron is a visionary leader who leverages his entrepreneurial skills and business acumen to build successful ventures in the health and wellness industry. With a background in Business/Commerce and a rich organizational history encompassing various roles from Founder to Director, Tim brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. His commitment to innovation, growth, and improving health outcomes sets him apart in the competitive health technology landscape.
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I can’t stop thinking about the Wright Brothers biography. It’s the ultimate founder story.
They pretty much came from nothing, a small town in Ohio.
They lost their mum at a young age, and they struggled through all sorts of disease and near poverty conditions.
They started making bicycles, which were all the rage in the late 1800s. They made their own bikes from scratch.
They had no formal education or anything. They just liked building stuff and were smart.
Then they got obsessed with the idea of flying. Wilbur, the older brother, studied birds and thought it was so incredible that they could fly at tremendous speeds relative to their mass.
No one had really come close to making an airplane.
He and his younger brother Orville started trying to figure it out after hours.
They had to pretty much do everything from first principles. They did lots of testing with gliders, putting their body on the line to test it over and over again. All while running a bicycle business to support the family.
All these other inventors, like Alexander Graham Bell, were spending hundreds of thousands (a lot back then) and not making any real progress.
Everyone was constantly mocked by the press for even trying. Human flight is impossible they said.
After 4 years of hard work, the Wright Brothers ended up building the first functioning plane in 1903.
It cost them about $1,000 to build it.
And the rest is history.
It really moved me and it gave me a nice reminder:
Back yourself, ignore the noise and just keep building.
"We've been having our patients wear it four or six times and getting really good outcomes" - Dr Mike Freelander
Health professionals that use continuous glucose monitoring with their patients know how powerful it is in getting great health outcomes.
We need to make CGMs more affordable and more accessible for those living with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is costing us too much.
At Vively, we're working on the accessibility piece by making CGMs much easier to use in clinical practice through software, education and integrations.
That's why Vively is trusted by over 300 healthcare providers and thousands of patients and growing.
I'm looking forward to seeing the government's response when the inquiry publishes its report today.
