# Othman Laraki

> Othman Laraki is the co-founder and CEO of Color Health, a company he has steered from affordable genetic testing to pandemic-scale COVID infrastructure to a $4.6B-valued virtual cancer clinic serving over 7 million Americans. A Moroccan-born Stanford and MIT alumnus who learned to code by typing programs from magazines in Casablanca, he built Twitter's first revenue products as VP of Product before pivoting to healthcare. Today he sits on the American Cancer Society board as its only non-clinician, partners with Google and OpenAI to deploy AI in oncology, and angel invests in companies like Pinterest, Slack, and Instacart.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Color Health
- **Organizations:** Color Health, Twitter, Google, MixerLabs, American Cancer Society (board), World Economic Forum
- **From:** Casablanca, Morocco
- **Nationality:** Moroccan-American
- **Education:** B.S. Computer Science; M.S. Computer Science; M.S. Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, MBA, Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Color Health, valued at $4.6B (2021), serving 7M+ Americans, Built Twitter's first revenue products and helped grow the platform from 50M to 200M users as VP of Product, Successfully navigated Color through three major pivots: genetic testing → COVID infrastructure → Virtual Cancer Clinic

## Career timeline

- **1996** — Moved from Casablanca, Morocco to San Francisco Bay Area at age 18 to attend Stanford University
- **2000-2002** — Joined Google as one of its early product leaders; worked on performance infrastructure and Chrome browser
- **2002-2004** — Attended MIT Sloan for MBA in Financial Engineering
- **2008** — Co-founded MixerLabs / GeoAPI, a geolocation data engine for app developers
- **2009** — MixerLabs acquired by Twitter in one of Twitter's earliest acquisitions
- **2009-2013** — Joined Twitter post-acquisition; rose to Vice President of Product overseeing Growth, Revenue, and International; helped grow Twitter from 50M to 200M users and built its first revenue products
- **2013** — Co-founded Color with Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, and Taylor Sittler
- **2015** — Color launched publicly in April with affordable hereditary cancer genetic testing (BRCA1/2 focus)
- **2018** — Color became genome center for NIH's All of Us Research Program (1M+ Americans)
- **2020** — Color pivoted to large-scale COVID-19 testing infrastructure; partnered with United Airlines; Series D at $1.5B valuation ($167M raised)
- **2021** — Series E at $4.6B valuation ($100M raised); COVID operations surpassed genomics revenue
- **2023** — Color launched Virtual Cancer Clinic - vertically integrated 50-state medical group for early cancer detection and oncology care
- **2024** — Partnered with OpenAI (GPT-4o) for Cancer Copilot; angel invested in Bluenote AI Series A
- **2025** — Partnered with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for breast cancer screening (pilot: 20K-30K women); appeared at Startup Grind 2025

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Color Health, valued at $4.6B (2021), serving 7M+ Americans
- Built Twitter's first revenue products and helped grow the platform from 50M to 200M users as VP of Product
- Successfully navigated Color through three major pivots: genetic testing → COVID infrastructure → Virtual Cancer Clinic
- Sold MixerLabs to Twitter in 2009, one of Twitter's earliest acquisitions
- Named one of Managed Healthcare Executive's 10 Emerging Industry Leaders
- Only non-clinician (non-MD/PhD) on the American Cancer Society board
- Genome center partner for NIH's All of Us Research Program
- ~66 angel investments including Pinterest, Slack, Instacart, Airtable, GitLab
- Author in Scientific American and TechCrunch on health/tech convergence
- World Economic Forum participant and speaker
- Color operates at 14,000+ physical sites across America
- Pioneered AI-powered cancer care with OpenAI and Google Cloud partnerships

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Color Health and Google Cloud partner to deploy AI agents for breast cancer screening, targeting 20,000-30,000 women in pilot
- **2025-02** — Appeared at Startup Grind 2025 on AI in healthcare with Kindred Ventures' Kanyi Maqubela
- **2024-12** — Angel invested in Bluenote AI Series A
- **2024-06** — Color Health partnered with OpenAI to build Cancer Copilot using GPT-4o for oncology clinicians

## Links

- Website: https://www.color.com/leadership/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/othmanlaraki
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/othman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/othman.laraki

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Last updated: 2026-04-25