Ed Gaudet is the founder and CEO of Censinet, a healthcare-focused governance, risk, and compliance platform that started in third-party risk management and expanded into enterprise risk and compliance.
In this episode, Ed shares why going “all-in” on healthcare is fundamentally different than treating healthcare as just another vertical, and how Censinet built a multi-sided network connecting health systems with their ecosystem of third parties.
We dig into the early days: raising capital with an idea, building v1 through a design partner program, and why Ed believes there’s no playbook for the next thing — including a candid take on how PE playbooks can fill a leadership void while also constraining the definition of success.
Ed also breaks down growth phases shaped by disruption: launching into March 2020, then navigating post-pandemic aftershocks. He explains the strategic pivot to invest in product, the operating rhythm behind near-biweekly releases, and how weekly customer conversations (plus internal transparency) became a competitive advantage.
Finally, we close with Censinet’s AI approach: architected into the platform, secure by design and secure by default, with customers choosing when to enable capabilities — and an internal mandate for teams to adopt AI in their daily workflows.
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