How to Be a Successful Founder

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As a founder, the first like 12 months, you should only work on product and talk to your customer. And I think the most important is to really be obsessed by only users,. First users and product and absolutely nothing else. Building your team, but not too fast. The worst distraction for us was where large incumbents companies won't talk to us or tell us we could integrate you in our product.

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.