Company

Cochlear

Type: public
Ticker: COH · ASX
Market value: $12B

Cochlear is public, listed as COH on ASX, in Healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

What it sells: cochlear implants.

In the language of this map it serves 2 solutions — Hearing aids and Accessibility and assistive technology — which between them relieve 2 human frictions.

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Sells

Hearing aidsLate career
Accessibility and assistive technologyAcross every phase

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Conditions accumulate and specialists multiplyLate career
Lose the ability to work or care for oneself, at any ageAcross every phase

Trends favouring it

Spatial computing, AR, and brain-computer interfacesReal but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed.