The Next Quarter Podcast - Episode 6 - Ian Coyne & Amber Vodegel, 28X Ltd

Amber built one of the world’s largest pregnancy apps, now used by over 150 million women, and is back with a bold new venture set to redefine digital health.

From on‑device AI and data sovereignty to exoskeletons, diagnostics, trust, affordability, and the real moonshot in healthcare (spoiler: it’s not what you think), Amber offers a visionary, candid look at what must change between now and 2050.

Highlights:

• Amber’s founder story – from building a pregnancy app that reached 2 million women a day to scaling globally and exiting to Philips.
• Why she’s building 28X – a free, privacy‑safe, on‑device AI women’s health platform for everyone, everywhere.
• The future of health (2026–2050) – predictive diagnostics, nano‑biology, decentralized health intelligence, and biological AI.
• The trust crisis – why people don’t trust governments, Big Tech, or health systems – and what leaders must do to fix it.
• Affordability & access – why health tech must work on low‑end devices, not just for the wealthiest 5%.
• Lessons from a second‑time founder – radical user‑obsession, keeping teams small, and the pressure of serving vulnerable populations.
• What great leaders really do – solving problems no one else wants to tackle.
• Risk‑taking in entrepreneurship – the 4 a.m. moments and the thrill of building something that might change the world.
• Amber’s moonshot – tackling the hidden driver of global ill‑health: processed food and sugar.
• A lighter moment – what Amber wanted to be as a kid growing up in a small Dutch village

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