-: My name is Nick Delmonico and I'm the CEO
and co-founder of a company called Stratus Labs.
Stratus Labs is a digital health and
wearable technology company, focused on
respiratory health and remote monitoring.
For us, we know that there's a new frontier of healthcare.
Health 2.0, will require new technologies to be
integrated into the health system,
to have higher touch levels of care,
which means getting information about people
while they're not in the hospital.
So you can better understand their signs and symptoms,
better understand whether they may
or may not need hospital resources.
That's where Stratus Labs comes in,
is that remote monitoring tool to help somebody
who has a respiratory condition,
for example, like asthma, be able to personally
understand their signs and symptoms better by
recognizing wheezes and coughs and shortness of breath.
And also being able to communicate
those signs and symptoms back to a physician or a care team.
Our flag ship product is actually a little
wearable device, about the size of a watch face,
that sits on your chest or back
in a little adhesive sticker.
And syncs to your smart phone, go about your day.
And again, that's where you're getting that information
about any type of wheezing or coughing or
changes in respiratory sound that may indicate that
you are experiencing some sort of issue
related to your respiratory health.
So, it's pretty small.
Has two microphones in it,
one that listens to the outside noise.
One that listens to your heart and lungs
and syncs to your smart phone.
Yeah, a day for me as an entrepreneur,
it's sort of taking an MBA,
which is what I did at Temple and
doing all of those classes,
but actually in real life, so I do Finance.
I do HR, I do Product Design and Development.
I work with all of our teams, managing those products.
Projects, and you know, for me, it varies on a daily basis.
Sometimes I'm traveling for
investor pitches or presentations.
And sometimes I'm actually just doing accounting for
six or seven hours a day.
So it really varies, but that's what
makes it so exciting for me.
I would say thinking of others first,
and that's something that's not always intuitive to people.
I have my own expectations for what needs to get done
from a product or project perspective,
but I need to always put myself in the shoes
of the people who are actually actively working on it.
And understand why maybe a deadline may have been missed
or why somebody might've been struggling.
And put myself out there to listen to those concerns,
rather than just barking orders at somebody
and telling them it needs to get done no matter what.
So, for me, it's always being compassionate and
understanding of their situations first and foremost.
But then, again, still trying to stick to those deadlines,
making sure things are getting done and
figuring out why they're not getting done to make change.