{"id":1780,"date":"2019-02-03T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecommerce.tmcnet.com\/how_richard_sprague_has_evolved_since_itexpo\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:29:54","slug":"how-richard-sprague-has-evolved-since-itexpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/how-richard-sprague-has-evolved-since-itexpo.html","title":{"rendered":"How Richard Sprague has Evolved Since ITEXPO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many of you may remember Richard Sprague from ITEXPO<\/a>. He was the Senior Director, Marketing for Microsoft Response Point – their small business phone system launched<\/a> at the show. It was great working with him throughout 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richard moved on to focus more on the healthcare space after leaving Microsoft and more recently has been doing some fascinating things with his\u00a0microbiome, meaning the entire community of microbes found in his body at any given time. A fascinating CNBC article<\/a> about Rich details how he\u2019s sent in hundreds of samples from his skin, nose and stool to various companies that claim to analyze the microbiome for insights about human health.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

In 2014, he decided to do all he could to understand his body with these newly available tests. He was one of the first to try 23andMe to analyze his DNA, and was early into direct-to-consumer \u201cmicrobiome\u201d tests, including one from venture-backed\u00a0uBiome<\/a>, where he worked as a citizen scientist-in-residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout five years ago, I started learning about all the non-human genes that are just sitting there, which co-evolved with humans and are clearly doing something,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What did he find? Some fascinating things:<\/p>\n

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