Alligator Start: How to Get Critical Mass Fast

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Allody is also part of this cycle that you have a pretty great like business model where you know if you get more contracts, you can sign more practices. Did you focus on one of those fronts or did you focus on both of them when you first started building out alligator start? It seemed intuitively makes sense that these are the things that we should be doing. Yeah.

Founded in 2014, Aledade works with over 11,000 physicians across 40 States accounting for 1.7 million patients under management in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid contracts.

Farzad Mostashari has spent his career in health care policy and Health Information Technology.

Farzad previously served as the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to his work at the Office of the National Coordinator, he founded the NYC Primary Care Information project, which equipped physicians and underserved communities with electronic health records. He completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine and a Master’s degree in Population Health from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In this episode we talk about Farzad’s journey to healthcare, how he started Aledade, the importance of independent physicians in value-based care, how Aledade scaled as a profitable health tech company, and advice he has for founders.