Interview with Allurion co-founder Shantanu Gaur

Shantanu Gaur has been inspired and driven by his parents, brilliant and independent-thinking immigrants from India. When it came time to choose between a career as a physician or as an entrepreneur, his mathematician father helped him calculate how many people he could help and what would happen if he failed.As co-founder and CEO of Allurion Technologies, Shantanu has helped develop and launch balloons --not into the sky but into the stomach-- where they help patients feel full and lose weight. The product is on the market in Europe and the Middle East, and there are plans for the US and China as well.Allurion is succeeding where other weight loss balloons have failed. The company’s balloons can be swallowed and filled in an office visit --not an operating room-- and are paired with nutritional counseling and a digital support system.

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By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.