Episode 285 | Morgan Evans, Co-Founder at Agitated Solutions | Product & Business Model Innovation in Medtech

In this episode, Morgan Evans shares her unconventional path into medtech, from a Stanford pre-med track to startup roles, business school at Northwestern, and M&A at Medtronic, before returning to entrepreneurship with a focus on both product and business model innovation. She explains how her company, Agitated Solutions, is tackling better detection and characterization of PFO, including the clinical risk and variability of today’s manual contrast process and the evolution toward a drug-led combination product and software. The conversation dives into how she “kills” ideas using clinical diligence, market size, and value economics, why being an operator makes her a stronger investor through Engage Venture Partners, and how she’s built a broader ecosystem through Moonshot Medical, SurgiSmoke, and Avio Medtech Consulting. She also unpacks leadership fundamentals like trust vs. performance, intent and process failures, decision fatigue, saying no, and using time-blocking and AI assistants as a chief-of-staff to scale focus and execution. Morgan Evans LinkedIn Agitated Solutions Website Avio Medtech Consulting Website Engage Venture Partners Website Moonshot Medical Website SurgiSmoke LinkedIn Duane Mancini LinkedIn Project Medtech LinkedIn Project Medtech Website Thank you to our sponsors: Ward Law , Wheelhouse DMG , and JumpStart Inc .