# Elliot Cohen

> Elliot Cohen is co-founder and President of General Medicine, co-founder and former Chief Product Officer of PillPack, and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan. His career combines engineering, product and operations work, startup community building and teaching. He co-founded MIT’s Hacking Medicine program, helped build PillPack before its 2018 acquisition by Amazon, and returned to company building with TJ Parker and Ashwin Muralidharan in 2023.

- **Role:** Co-founder and President at General Medicine
- **Organizations:** General Medicine, PillPack, Amazon, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Hacking Medicine, Founder Collective, Microsoft, Corengi, Ariadne Labs
- **Education:** Degrees in computer science and cognitive science, University of California, Berkeley, MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded PillPack, acquired by Amazon in 2018., Co-founded MIT’s Hacking Medicine program., Shares the Trust Center’s 2013 Hacking Medicine award listing with Allen Cheng and Allison Yost.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2010** — Worked at Microsoft for a couple of years after university; then worked in early-stage companies.
- **2010** — Joined the Martin Trust Center to run the entrepreneur-in-residence program.
- **2012** — Won an MIT Hacking Medicine hackathon with TJ Parker.
- **2013** — Earned an MIT Sloan MBA and co-founded PillPack.
- **2018** — Amazon acquired PillPack.
- **2022** — Left Amazon in September alongside TJ Parker.
- **2023** — Co-founded General Medicine with TJ Parker and Ashwin Muralidharan.
- **2025** — General Medicine launched nationwide in May.
- **2026** — Listed as President in General Medicine’s October 6 Series B announcement.

## Achievements

- Co-founded PillPack, acquired by Amazon in 2018.
- Co-founded MIT’s Hacking Medicine program.
- Shares the Trust Center’s 2013 Hacking Medicine award listing with Allen Cheng and Allison Yost.
- Teaches Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures as a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan.
- Co-founded General Medicine, which announced $120 million in Series B financing on October 6, 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — General Medicine announced a $120 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz; Cohen is President and total funding is $152 million.
- **2025-12** — Appeared as a General Medicine co-founder on TBPN on December 16.
- **2025-07** — Joined Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan on the Vital Signs podcast.
- **2025-04** — Discussed PillPack’s product-building lessons with Julie Yoo on an a16z podcast.

## Links

- Website: https://about.me/elliotcohen
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emcohen
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/elliotcohen

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