Amazec recycles ASML technology to diagnose heart failure

It seemed like a really good idea, but Pim Kat wanted to be sure. Let’s find out whether doctors would really have a need for our medical device, he suggested to his potential business partners. And so they sent out questionnaires to one hundred experts around the world, soliciting their opinion on the concept.

Kat set the bar high: if he was going to shore up his retirement, he wanted a response rate of at least 70 percent, of which 90 percent needed to be positive. He got a 130 percent response rate – many doctors enthusiastically forwarded the questionnaire to colleagues – of which 97 percent was overwhelmingly positive. No retirement yet for Kat, who turns 65 in a few weeks.