Brad Gerstner: The $100 Test That Could Save 50,000 Lives a Year

Brad Gerstner & Jason Chang are trying to turn the $100 CAC heart scan into the “mammogram for the heart.”At the All-In Summit, Brad and Jason brought his mobile coronary artery calcium CT scanner to screen attendees & make the case for preventing heart attacks at scale.Heart disease kills ~800,000 Americans annually. Brad and Jason believe scaling CAC scans to 40M people a year could save 50,000 lives and $20B in government healthcare costs annually.Rob Goldberg joined us to explain why the mission is deeply personal.His brother Dave Goldberg, married to Sheryl Sandberg, died suddenly at 47 from undiagnosed heart disease, leaving behind their two young children. Just five months earlier, he had passed a running EKG.“My brother had passed a running EKG five months before he dropped dead from heart disease, from undiagnosed heart disease.”Dave’s death became the foundation for Sandberg’s book Option B, co-written with Adam Grant, about grief, resilience and rebuilding life after devastating loss.Now Rob Goldberg, Brad Gerstner, Jason Chang, & the rest of the besties, & the team behind the Center for Heart Attack Prevention want to prevent more families from experiencing the same thing, pushing for earlier detection, broader access to CAC scans & changes to the standard of care.We go inside the mobile scanner and discuss:› Why Brad calls CAC scanning the “mammogram for the heart”› The Goldberg family’s experience with undiagnosed heart disease› Why cholesterol & traditional testing can miss cardiovascular risk› What CAC scores actually tell you› Difference between a calcium CT scan & an angiogram› Why Brad bought his own mobile scanner› The “buy one, give one” model for expanding access› Brad’s push to bring CAC screening to 40 million Americans a year› How a roughly $100 scan could potentially prevent thousands of premature deaths› Why Brad believes health data gives people the power to take actionMolly on X: https://x.com/MollySOSheaBrad Gerstner on X: https://x.com/altcapJason Chang on X: https://x.com/yoweichangBrought to you by:Brex—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, and travel. As a Sourcery subscriber you get: 75,000 points after spending $3,000 on Brex card(s). Plus, white-glove onboarding, $5,000 in AWS credits, $2,500 in OpenAI credits, and access to $180k+ in SaaS discounts. On top of $500 toward Brex travel, $300 in cashback, plus exclusive perks (like billboards..) visit → brex.com/sourceryFollow Sourcery for the latest updates! https://www.sourcery.vc/𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒

00:00 Brad Gerstner & Rob Goldberg

00:10 CAC Scanner Moonshot

01:53 Rob’s Family Tragedy

04:39 Center Missions and Prevention

05:37 Why Cholesterol Became Standard

10:07 Overcoming Fear and Insurance

12:29 CAC vs Angiogram Guidance

14:43 Where the Trailer Goes Next

16:40 Inside the Scanner Demo

20:48 Why Labs Miss Risk

23:27 Final Call to Action