{"id":1091,"date":"2018-05-31T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2018-05-31T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:55:08","slug":"vidal-herrera-pioneering-the-private-autopsy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/vidal-herrera-pioneering-the-private-autopsy-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidal Herrera, Pioneering The Private Autopsy Industry &#8211; From The Ground Up (Ep. 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XFZi1ac01zA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On episode 4 of &#8220;From The Ground Up,&#8221; I sit down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vidal-herrera-69786859\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vidal Herrera<\/a>, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founder of<a href=\"http:\/\/1800autopsy.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 1-800-AUTOPSY<\/a>\u2014the pioneering provider of private autopsies. With nearly 40 years of experience working within hospital and medico-legal forensic environments, Vidal began his career as a coroner-investigator working on high profile celebrity homicide investigations. Today, 1-800-AUTOPSY has become a crossover success story, fascinating the likes of CNN, BBC, 60 Minutes, Dateline and countless others. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this interview, Vidal and I discuss a variety of topics, such as: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; The story of Vidal\u2019s early beginnings, from nursing attendant <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to countless high profile celebrity homicide investigations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How a career-ending injury led Vidal to pioneer the private autopsy industry<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Inside the creation of Vidal\u2019s second business, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morgue Prop Rentals<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; And more<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vidal-herrera-69786859\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to learn more about Vidal Herrera.<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/1800autopsy.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to learn more about <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1-800-AUTOPSY.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1800autopsy.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to learn more about\u00a0 Vidal\u2019s second business, Morgue Prop Rentals.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rf7nHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about topics like this in my latest book, <em>Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018)<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About &#8220;From The Ground Up&#8221;:<br \/>\nHosted by entrepreneur, author and Princeton Professor Derek Lidow, <em>From The Ground Up<\/em> uncovers the not-so-secret strategies of self-made business owners. Featuring conversations with entrepreneurs who built influential brands and companies, Derek weaves a narrative journey about how successful business are created without having to shoot for the moon or take on unnecessary risk; how the greatest companies are the ones that are built, from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On episode 4 of &#8220;From The Ground Up,&#8221; I sit down with Vidal Herrera, Founder of 1-800-AUTOPSY\u2014the pioneering provider of private autopsies. With nearly 40 years of experience working within hospital and medico-legal forensic environments, Vidal began his career as a coroner-investigator working on high profile celebrity homicide investigations. 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