After 7 years at McKinsey, I left to build an AI healthtech startup. I had to unlearn the pursuit of perfection.

Julius Bruch, a former McKinsey consultant, explains why he left to build an AI healthtech startup —and how consulting prepared him for the leap.

Julius Bruch

• After about 7 years at McKinsey, Julius Bruch left to build an AI healthtech startup.
• Bruch said leaving corporate life was scary, but consulting gave him the tools to be a good founder.
• Every milestone at the startup feels like a massive reward because you're fighting for it, he said.

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