Zach Lipton

And support me to pay my PhD students.

And I'm going to work on this, like the R&D side of this.

And in the meanwhile, the company experimented with all kinds of ways of getting to market.

A bridge launched a patient-facing application.

But the thing is that your hands were tied behind your back about like, it's much more what kind of AI features you could ship directly to the patient at the time without a doctor in the loop to...

you know, was the wherewithal to to be the filter to verify the accuracy of the content.

But that was like, you know, like from a pure distribution angles, like, well, what value could we give to them, even if it was lighter weight on the side?

During the pandemic, there was an attempt to build a telemedicine platform.

But that whole time on the on the R&D side, I was chugging along, working on the end to end describing side with my students.

And we actually got it to work surprisingly well.

And as the sort of knowledge in the commons and open source capabilities got much stronger, and as we worked with the bridge, you know, developing more expansive data sets, we were able to keep improving the quality to the point

That in 2022, it started to become obvious that, hey, like 2018, this was a pipe dream.

2022 is this is going to happen in the next year.

And the question is, like, do we go all in or do we allow or do we like, you know, like let someone else like kind of really get there?

So I think we were a company that was almost founded too soon, but really engaged at the right time.

So January 2023 or around there, I ended up stepping more fully into day-to-day operator role, took over as chief technology officer at the company.

We had maybe like five technical staff inside the company at the time.

Now we're a 450 person company.

and and so over those over that first year we completely remade the ai brains and the sort of product experience we got to market with the first enterprise product of a gen ai product in the history of healthcare to my knowledge or at least the first successful one came out around april may with a closed contract and a month later i was like we were we were raising a series b by the end of 2023 we had

I think 11 enterprise partners and raised a Series C, including with a check from NVIDIA and Jensen, which involved a pretty, a pretty, a pretty big pitch.