I love to talk a little bit about your advice for founders in the early stages of product development and healthcare. You can't just like build something and ship it to patients, you have to go through a lot of safety or getting buy-in from doctors. So solving that, I think in startup schools, like Wai Combinatoros, I tell you in the right, you know, start with a problem,. Start with a problem and then build the solution for this problem. It starts with who is paying what is the business model. And then it will help you redefine the problem.
Today, we’re excited to get to know Alexandre Lebrun, CEO and Cofounder of Nabla, a personalized AI assistant for doctors. Before founding Nabla, Alex was the Head of Engineering at Facebook AI research for almost four years, and is a seasoned entrepreneur, having sold his previous companies Wit.ai, an AI platform that makes it easy to build apps that understand natural human language, to Facebook in 2015 and VirtuOz, a customer service chatbot, to Nuance Communications in 2012.
In this episode, Alexandre shares his experiences after 22 years and founding 3 startups, why proprietary data is more important than ever for defensibility, tactics on GTM and customer focus specific to healthcare buyers, and opportunities and safety for generative AI in healthcare.