Jared Hecht

In 2023 I took a 12-month hiatus to recharge after building startups nonstop since graduating college. During that period of time, I had a rule that I would only commit to something if its gravitational force was completely inescapable. The opportunity to join USV was that thing for me, but along the way I explored a variety of different startup ideas. One of those ideas was around helping people not die of heart disease. I published some of my early learnings on this blog last October, and it was one of the most-read articles I've written. I had an idea to create a service that would help people understand their risk factors and get screened for heart disease, and then generate personalized plans for them so they wouldn't succumb to the world's leading cause of death. Every time I told someone about the idea and what I had learned, they soaked it all up. But when I asked if they ever got the tests I recommended, they usually didn't. So I wrote up a very long treatise on how to avoid dying of heart disease, and I was going to post it on a domain I bought, myticker.com, but I never got around to it because I had moved on from pursuing the idea. But I put a lot of work into the document that synthesized a lot of my learnings and experience. Over the past year, it has made its way around my circle of friends, and I finally decided I'd try to make it legible and publish it for anyone interested. I still think this is a problem that needs to be solved and that someone should build a company that is consumer-first and exclusively focused on helping people not die of heart disease. If you're interested in doing this, please reach out to me because I'd love to help you and share all the work I did. Someone needs to put the myticker.com domain name to work. I also want to thank some people who helped me along my heart health journey: Harvey Hecht, James Min, @Drlipid, Arthur Agatstan, Andrea Klemes, Louis Malinow, @jwessler, @neilparikh, @smart, Alan Tisch, David Kopp and Carrie Weprin. If you have a heart, I hope you find this helpful. And if you care about someone else's heart, I hope you share it with them this Holiday season. Happy Thanksgiving, and don't die of heart disease!

Everyone should go to myticker.com and learn more about preventing heart disease. This isn’t just for “old” people. I just turned 45… there are some things I need to work on. You probably need to as well.

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Pythagoras in 500 BC:

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big news... @wand_app is being acquired by @krea_ai, and I've joined as Head of Product along with the Wand team. more than any other company in the space, Krea shares our mission to help serious artists & designers bring ambitious projects to life without compromising their vision. to do this, we need tasteful, controllable models working in tandem with interfaces that go beyond the prompt box and reward artistic skill + vision. extremely excited about what we'll ship over the next year :)

SCCT is saddened to share the passing of Harvey Hecht, MD, FSCCT, founding member of the Society & 2015 Agatston Award recipient. Dr. Hecht was a pioneering force in cardiac imaging & advancing noninvasive coronary CT angiography. His work has helped save countless lives.

@BudoffMd @BudoffMd I can’t believe we were talking about calling Harvey just last week…He was an incredible person and mentor. He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy through the many fellows he trained - I’ll always remember reading my very first CCTA with him.

@angioplastyorg it took a group of obstinate and brilliant people who knew cta was the future to willingly be pariahs for over a decade to change the game. thank god they did. i wrote this one synthesizing heart things he taught me: myticker.com

@jaredhecht Indeed! Here's a post I wrote about a NY Times article, questioning the value of CT for heart disease, quoting and discussing a case of your dad's. ptca.org/voice/archives…

RIP imaging expert Harvey S. Hecht MD FACC who sadly passed last week. I first met Harvey at Lenox Hill in NYC when I was working with Simon Stertzer. Harvey then followed Simon out to the San Francisco Heart Institute where we all spent a decade-plus running live courses. Harvey went on to work at the Arizona Heart Institute, Beth Israel, Mount Sinai, & more. He authored hundreds of journal publications, pioneered the development of noninvasive coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA), & was a founding member of @Heart_SCCT. Below is a two-part interview I did with Harvey about Cardiac CT, prescient since this was 18 years ago! bit.ly/4a1wUL5

I learned today that my dear friend and colleague Dr Harvey Hecht passed On January 28. Harvey was a pioneer in CAC and CCTA and was the first president of the society of cardiovascular imaging and a leading preventive cardiologist long before such a profession was fully realized

@RonKarlsbergMD @BudoffMd @DrRumberger he was the goat in my eyes

I am shocked to hear this sad news. Harvey was a friend for decades, and together he @BudoffMd and @DrRumberger were the true founders of the field, advancing from Electron Beam Tomography (EBT) with the support of our amazing technologist John Leal. He founded perhaps one of the first center of excellence for this technology with Dr. Edward “Ted” B. Diethrich at the Arizona Heart Institute. He was an early adopter of the view that CT was not just a "gatekeeper" to the cath lab—a perspective rejected by many in the field at the time. He was a legend at Lenox Hill and Mount Sinai, a fellow bike rider, and I will miss him sorely. My deepest condolences to his family!

My dear friend Harvey Hecht passed away last week. legacy.com/us/obituaries/… Harvey was part of the original Calcium Club, formed in the early 90's. Many called him a zealot, but he persisted and created guidelines, science and awareness. The world will miss you Harvey.

@BudoffMd he inspired me to write this myticker.com

@davidlee he said so himself!

@jaredhecht He was a lucky man to have you as a son

@rebeccakaden lucky children of GOATs we are

@jaredhecht lucky to have GOAT dads. and love learning about yours.

@aweissman ddc

@jaredhecht may his memory be a blessing

@patrick_oshag thank you patrick

@jaredhecht Beautiful tribute