Jun 18, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
An aerospace engineer walks into a NICU and doesn't leave the same person. On this episode of big bets & bad calls, Clint and Andrew sit down with Alex Newton, co-founder and CEO of Navi Medical…
Andrew NashHost
Clint McIntyreHost
Now it's like now you're in hustle mode, which is that initial hustle mode, which is, okay, we haven't quite got the cash we need.
And I'll take you down a funny little angle, which is, One of the things that was so cool for the past five or six years was if you've ever been into 700 Swanson Street and gone on the particular floor with this, there's this little crib that sits in there.
And the story behind the crib is an incredible character also in and around the university, Marty Nguyen, who has an offer profit called Medical Pantry.
right? So Marty's a great character and… was in a startup that was in the MedTech Actuator program alongside us.
And then one of the sort of additional things that Marty did, because he's a doctor and a startup founder and he's just got all this free time, he just decided to do something else, was this idea of... all of the sort of medical equipment that is coming out of the hospitals how can we recycle it and or like reuse it um and so there's a lot of you know expired medical products that he donates into veterinary care um or great source for if you need some catheters just for some benchtop testing okay they might have you know passed the sterility date so you can't use them in care but Bench top testing, engineering, no problem at all.
So one day we were doing an expo and we thought, you know, we need somewhere to put this thing, you know, this vascular access doll and our equipment.
And so I called Marty up and said, hey, Marty, you know, you wouldn't be able to source us a NICU crib, could
Now it's like now you're in hustle mode, which is that initial hustle mode, which is, okay, we haven't quite got the cash we need.
And I'll take you down a funny little angle, which is, One of the things that was so cool for the past five or six years was if you've ever been into 700 Swanson Street and gone on the particular floor with this, there's this little crib that sits in there.
And the story behind the crib is an incredible character also in and around the university, Marty Nguyen, who has an offer profit called Medical Pantry.
right? So Marty's a great character and… was in a startup that was in the MedTech Actuator program alongside us.
And then one of the sort of additional things that Marty did, because he's a doctor and a startup founder and he's just got all this free time, he just decided to do something else, was this idea of... all of the sort of medical equipment that is coming out of the hospitals how can we recycle it and or like reuse it um and so there's a lot of you know expired medical products that he donates into veterinary care um or great source for if you need some catheters just for some benchtop testing okay they might have you know passed the sterility date so you can't use them in care but Bench top testing, engineering, no problem at all.
So one day we were doing an expo and we thought, you know, we need somewhere to put this thing, you know, this vascular access doll and our equipment.
And so I called Marty up and said, hey, Marty, you know, you wouldn't be able to source us a NICU crib, could
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