Post by Reid Hoffman

Nan Ransohoff is the head of Public Goods at Stripe, and now they're focused on tackling a problem for all of humanity: respiratory infections. Most otherwise healthy people get sick two to four times a year. It's annoying. We tolerate it because it feels like part of life. But the aggregate cost, including lost productivity and long-term health effects we haven't characterized well, are mounting. The tools to solve this problem have improved significantly over the past couple of years, including new AI tools that can accelerate research and treatment. This is increasingly a tractable problem, not an inevitable one. The question isn't whether we could make respiratory infections a thing of the past. The question is timeframe, resources, and whether we treat it like the orphan it is: too familiar to feel urgent, too distributed to attract a single champion.

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