This news doesn’t surprise me at all as Mike Lazardis was very encouraging when I demoed 3G Doctor for him on his tour of our pod on the Symbian booth at the Smartphone Show in London way back in 2007 but I do find it very revealing that so far every single one of these Billionaires who have already made mHealth investments are completely self made wealth creators:

John Dorrance Source of Wealth: Campbell Soups
Judy Faulkner Source of Wealth: Health IT
Doug Fregin Source of Wealth: RIM
Bill Gates Source of Wealth: Microsoft
Paul E Jacobs Source of Wealth: Qualcomm
Mohamed Ibrahim Source of Wealth: African MNO Celtel
Philippe Kahn Source of Wealth: Technology
Li Ka-shing Source of Wealth: Telecoms, Utilities & Property
Vinod Khosla Source of Wealth: Sun Microsystems
Lee Kun-Hee Source of Wealth: Samsung
Mike Lazaridis Source of Wealth: RIM
Denis O’Brien Source of Wealth: Digicel
Hans Rausing Source of Wealth: Packaging
Leonard Schlemm Source of Wealth: 24 Hour Fitness
Carlos Slim Source of Wealth: América Móvil
Patrick Soon-Shiong Source of Wealth: American Pharmaceutical Partners & Abraxis BioScience
Ted Turner Source of Wealth: Cable TV
Gary & Mary West Source of Wealth: West Corp
Steve Wozniak Source of Wealth: Apple Computers

Who have I missed?

Update 13/9/2013: Steve Case (presenting at the 2013 mHealth Summit) Source of Wealth: AOL

Update 8/11/2013: Mark Cuban (makes $500k investment in smartphone-connected breathalyser Breathometer on ABC’s Shark Tank) Source of Wealth: Sale of Broadcast.com

Update 6/8/2014: Richard Branson (Angel Investor in DoctorOnDemand – a ‘web-based app on desktop computers’ that let’s Patients video consult with Doctors). Source of Wealth: Virgin Brands HatTip: Nick Hunn

Update 21/6/2015: Brad Feld (FitBit investor). Source of Wealth: Venture Capitalist