Lots of Dunning-Kruger in this post. While it is admirable that you are starting another company, may I suggest that you be more humble when making some claims. Getting to #1 diagnostics model on some benchmark (apparently) without being dependent on strong base model, open or closed source, sounds too good to be true. "Fairly significant track record in entrepreneurship" - starting a company with product ideas from your previous company and getting acquired by a overvalued tech company, in part with over valued stock doesn't really sound like significant track record on entrepreneurship. If the latter claim is not true, maybe you can post about at what min valuation of GoPuff will the VCs that invested in your company break even.
I suspect that you are starting a new company because you suspect that your previous acquisition did not do as well as you would have hoped for and now you are weaving all of these stories. You might end up making some money with another acquisition but you will screw your employees again.
It's great to have the humility to look inwards but you know what is great - to be factual.
Some good points - new company is building on top of base models, leveraging so much hard work and capital that has been put into development. No way the new company could exist without all the development re LLMs, it is incredible technology but there’s significant gaps to make it useful for healthcare.
I wrote about the motivation to start another company here:
Getting acquired was never the goal of the last company, but unfortunately I got the market timing for self driving wrong by 7 years, and we had to pivot to delivery to survive.
Again, no facts. Actually there might be another way to review one of your claims - you can just post your best diagnostic model to https://medarena.ai/ and then report where does it stand. And I hope that your team did know about Med Arena? People have been working on diagnostic LLM for years now, to claim that you have the best model without revealing any facts about it, is just so disingenuous.
Thanks for sharing! It's been wonderful to follow you on the next step of your entrepreneurial journey, this one solving what I believe is the biggest current issue in our country, which is access to healthcare.
I can see your growth through your posts, with you learning from your experiences and adding tools to your toolbox. This article highlights one such learning, which is adding a step to clear the mind rather than immediately solving problems. Your thoughts about ensuring runway to give customers confidence make a lot of sense as well.
Cheers to all of the entrepreneurs out there, changing the world and creating a new path forward. Congrats also on becoming a new dad!
Lots of Dunning-Kruger in this post. While it is admirable that you are starting another company, may I suggest that you be more humble when making some claims. Getting to #1 diagnostics model on some benchmark (apparently) without being dependent on strong base model, open or closed source, sounds too good to be true. "Fairly significant track record in entrepreneurship" - starting a company with product ideas from your previous company and getting acquired by a overvalued tech company, in part with over valued stock doesn't really sound like significant track record on entrepreneurship. If the latter claim is not true, maybe you can post about at what min valuation of GoPuff will the VCs that invested in your company break even.
I suspect that you are starting a new company because you suspect that your previous acquisition did not do as well as you would have hoped for and now you are weaving all of these stories. You might end up making some money with another acquisition but you will screw your employees again.
It's great to have the humility to look inwards but you know what is great - to be factual.
Thanks for reading and commenting:
Some good points - new company is building on top of base models, leveraging so much hard work and capital that has been put into development. No way the new company could exist without all the development re LLMs, it is incredible technology but there’s significant gaps to make it useful for healthcare.
I wrote about the motivation to start another company here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/justinho/p/starting-a-company-again-after-i?r=1rs9r6&utm_medium=ios
Getting acquired was never the goal of the last company, but unfortunately I got the market timing for self driving wrong by 7 years, and we had to pivot to delivery to survive.
Again, no facts. Actually there might be another way to review one of your claims - you can just post your best diagnostic model to https://medarena.ai/ and then report where does it stand. And I hope that your team did know about Med Arena? People have been working on diagnostic LLM for years now, to claim that you have the best model without revealing any facts about it, is just so disingenuous.
Thanks for sharing! It's been wonderful to follow you on the next step of your entrepreneurial journey, this one solving what I believe is the biggest current issue in our country, which is access to healthcare.
I can see your growth through your posts, with you learning from your experiences and adding tools to your toolbox. This article highlights one such learning, which is adding a step to clear the mind rather than immediately solving problems. Your thoughts about ensuring runway to give customers confidence make a lot of sense as well.
Cheers to all of the entrepreneurs out there, changing the world and creating a new path forward. Congrats also on becoming a new dad!
Thanks for the amazing support, especially through all the tougher times! Clearing the mind is so tough, I've learned so much from you on that front.
We've learned and applied much from each other. Much more to come!