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Oct 13, 2026
Surviving the digital therapeutics graveyard | David Benshoof Klein, Click Therapeutics
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27:10David Benshoof KleinGUEST
We should try that
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27:10Christina FarrHOST
... you know, RIP Pear, like-
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27:12David Benshoof KleinGUEST
Yeah
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27:12Christina FarrHOST
... there's so many of them.
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28:22David Benshoof KleinGUEST
Um, so you know, that aside, yeah, there's, there's definitely a graveyard here o- of different companies.
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28:31David Benshoof KleinGUEST
You know, people r- really look at it from such a macro level, but without really going into too many details, right? So I, I would look at it kind of one way.
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28:43David Benshoof KleinGUEST
When you're creating this level of evidence, like, if this was a drug, would it be successful, right? And meaning if these outcomes were just drug outcomes, right? So if you look at Pear and where they spent all their money on opioid use disorder, you know, ended up with a, you know, app that was indicated to increase compliance to opioid use disorder outpatient therapy, right? Didn't, in their pivotal, drive abstinence, right? Which is what you wanna see in opioid use disorder.
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29:13David Benshoof KleinGUEST
It's just simply if that was a drug, you know, Pfizer or whoever would've just put it on the shelf as something that doesn't work.