Lessons in Leadership — Building a Successful Team and Checking Your Ego at the Door: Interview with Check-Cap Founder and CTO Yoav Kimchy

In this episode of Medsider Radio, we sat down with Yoav Kimchy, Founder and CTO of Check-Cap.Yoav has more than 20 years of experience in the development and management of innovative medical device companies. In 2005, he founded Check-Cap, a clinical-stage medical diagnostics company that aims to change the colorectal cancer (CRC) screening landscape with its C-Scan ingestible capsule, tracing, and imaging system. In this discussion, Yoav shares how early feedback from regulators can help streamline your development efforts, why you should shift your team as the company grows, and the importance of knowing when to lead and when to follow.Before we jump into the conversation, I wanted to mention a few things:If you’re into learning from proven medtech and healthtech leaders, and want to know when new content and interviews go live, head over to Medsider.com and sign up for our free newsletter. You’ll get access to gated articles, and lots of other interesting healthcare content.Second, if you want even more inside info from proven experts, think about a Medsider premium membership. We talk to experienced healthcare leaders about the nuts and bolts of running a business and bringing products to market.This is your place for valuable knowledge on specific topics like seed funding, prototyping, insurance reimbursement, and positioning a medtech startup for an exit.In addition to the entire back catalog of Medsider interviews over the past decade, premium members get a copy of every volume of Medsider Mentors sent to their door at no additional cost. If you’re interested, go to medsider.com/subscribe to learn more.Lastly, here's the link to the full interview with Yoav if you'd rather read it instead.