Max Marchione: Building a New Health System
From the Ground Up at 25

Most people interact with the healthcare system once a year at best, leave with a generic printout, and hear “everything looks normal” — even when it isn’t. Max Marchione thinks that’s one of the most fixable problems in the world, and he’s building Superpower to fix it.

In this episode of FOMO Sapiens, Patrick McGinnis welcomes Max Marchione, co-founder and President of Superpower, a San Francisco-based preventative health platform that has raised over $50 million and is redefining what affordable, proactive healthcare looks like. After years of misdiagnosis and frustration with a system he felt was reactive by design, Max co-founded Superpower with Jacob Peters and Kevin Unkrich to bring the kind of full-body testing, AI-powered analysis, and personalized health guidance that used to be reserved for the ultra-wealthy — now available for $199 a year.

The conversation covers:

• Why the healthcare system is excellent at fixing acute problems and nearly useless at prevention — and what a genuinely proactive health model looks like
• How Superpower builds a digital twin for each member using 100+ blood biomarkers, wearable data, medical records, and personal history — and what AI does with all of it
• Why 65% of Superpower’s members don’t have a primary care doctor, and what that says about where healthcare is heading
• The four things Max credits most for his early traction: environment, obsessive networking, earning clarity through action, and finding the smallest viable milestone first
• Why location is the single most modifiable variable in a founder’s outcomes — and why he wishes he’d moved to San Francisco at 18
• The proactive-to-reactive ratio as a predictor of success, and why most people spend the majority of their day responding rather than initiating
• What the healthiest people Max Marchione has tested have in common — and why it has almost nothing to do with diet or exercise

Patrick and Max also get into radical empowerment as a management philosophy, the psychosomatic component of health that mainstream medicine ignores, and why the best advice for a first-time founder might be to throw away most of the advice they’re given.

Meet Max Marchione:

Max Marchione is the co-founder of SuperPower, a preventative health platform making concierge-level medicine accessible to everyone. What used to cost $100,000 a year — comprehensive biomarker testing, AI-driven health analysis, and personalized care — SuperPower delivers for $199. The company has raised $51 million, built a team of 100, and attracted a massive waitlist of members looking to take control of their health before problems arise.

Max started his entrepreneurial journey in Australia, where a decade of misdiagnoses and an inadequate healthcare system convinced him that the industry needed to be rebuilt from scratch. He moved to San Francisco, slept on friends’ couches, and built SuperPower on the belief that the best healthcare in the world shouldn’t be reserved for billionaires.

He is 25 years old.