Alexandr Wang
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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AI agents to help people get medical care are very real.
But it was the wrong timing.
And we worked on it for about
a month or two before Jared pulled us aside and we're like, guys, this is, I don't know if this is going to go anywhere.
And that's exactly what we needed to hear.
And it was at that time when like, you know, I had studied AI at MIT, I had like trained models and we thought, we sort of went back to the drawing board, thought deeply about where the opportunity was and came up with scale.
Yeah, so the story here is that when I was at MIT, I did a bunch of projects to train models of various forms.
And these were, by comparison today, they're like little toy models.
And I remembered to train a model, I needed three things.
I needed a GCP account.
I needed an account on some cloud service to get compute.
I needed the code to run to actually train the model.
and I needed data, I needed a data set.
And for two out of these three things, you could just press a button online and get them.
And then for the last one, for data, there was no effective way to get data for training these models.
And so it felt incredibly obvious that this was going to be the future, that there was going to be a way to press a button, so to speak, and get data.
And it was very funny because
In the years that followed, in the first many years of scale, data was very unsexy still.
Every time we would go out to fundraise, even though our numbers were great and we had great revenue, VCs and investors would always be very skeptical.
They'd be like, oh, I don't know if this is good business.
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