Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews David Jacobs, founder of Silverstone Solutions, at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
At this DEMO, which has to be about my ninth or tenth, I saw a product pitch I never thought I would: for an application that actually saves lives. Silverstone’s “Matchmaker” is a clinical app that lets transplant organizations manage their Kidney Paired Donation program. The founder, David Jacobs, told a poignant story of how he lost a brother to kidney disease and, later, had to deal with getting a transplant himself. He saw firsthand the difficulty medical centers have in matching donors to recipients and, as a longtime software professional, saw it as a problem that software could solve. (I apologize, the first 30-60 seconds of this interview got clipped off — okay, I must not have hit the on button at first! — so, we join David in mid sentence. But I think you’ll get the gist of what this life-saving startup is all about.) Note: Silverstone later was awarded one of seven “DEMOgod Awards.”
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