Founder & CEO, Curative

Fred Turner

Serial entrepreneur who scaled Curative from a testing startup to a $5 billion company in nine months during COVID, then pivoted into health insurance to challenge incumbent insurers. Now betting on AI and nuclear energy as transformative technologies.

Known For

Explosive scaling during COVID crisisPivoting to attack healthcare incumbentsAI-driven organizational restructuringNuclear energy investing

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The Jagged Frontier: AI's Radical Unevenness Across Domains

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Paradigm Shifts Are Invisible to Incumbents

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Episodes

#$5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred TurnerJul 18, 2026