Day 69: Heart Monitor Pitch in Monterrey
In a glass-walled conference room in San Pedro Garza Garc铆a, next to Monterrey, Anabel (A), a young founder, pitches her home heart-monitoring app to Dr. Eliseo Trevi帽o (B), a cardiologist who invests in health startups.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Spanish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Spanish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Eso es Latido, doctor Trevi帽o: un parche y una app que detectan fibrilaci贸n auricular en casa, probados con trescientos pacientes.
That's Latido, Dr. Trevi帽o: a patch and an app that detect atrial fibrillation at home, tested on three hundred patients.
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B
Le铆 su reporte, y le ser茅 franco: apenas hubo terminado el primer mes, la mitad desinstal贸 la app.
I've read your report, and I'll be frank: no sooner had the first month ended than half of them uninstalled the app.
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A
Pero los que se quedaron la usaron a diario: noventa por ciento de retenci贸n, lo cual es rar铆simo.
But the ones who stayed used it every day: ninety percent retention, which is extremely rare.
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B
Noventa por ciento de los que se quedaron, lo cual es como presumir que sobrevivieron los sobrevivientes.
Ninety percent of the ones who stayed, which is like boasting that the survivors survived.
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A
Hubo catorce alertas y nueve se confirmaron con Holter: nueve personas que no sab铆an que estaban en riesgo de embolia.
There were fourteen alerts, and nine were confirmed with a Holter monitor: nine people who didn't know they were at risk of a stroke.
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B
Y cinco falsas alarmas, cinco sustos en urgencias de madrugada. As铆 no hay app rentable ni coraz贸n que aguante.
And five false alarms, five scares in the ER in the wee hours. No app can turn a profit like that, and no heart can take it.
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A
Tiene raz贸n: dise帽amos para gente de treinta y se lo dimos a pacientes de setenta, sin ense帽arles a usarlo.
You're right: we designed it for thirty-year-olds and gave it to seventy-year-old patients without showing them how to use it.
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B
Eso no viene en su reporte, Anabel. 驴Lo sabe por los datos, o porque ahora le conviene?
That's not in your report, Anabel. Do you know it from the data, or because it suits you now?
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A
Por los datos que no puse, y fue un error: de los pacientes cuyos hijos les instalaron la app, no la dej贸 ninguno.
From the data I left out, and that was a mistake: of the patients whose children set the app up for them, not one gave it up.
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B
Eso cambia el diagn贸stico: su usuario es la familia. Regrese con otro piloto; hoy no firmo, pero me dej贸 con taquicardia.
That changes the diagnosis: your user is the family. Come back with a new pilot; I'm not signing today, but you've given me palpitations.
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