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Cyrus Massoumi and the art of starting again
Before Zocdoc, there were size 13 shoes and a startup that folded. Cyrus Massoumi has spent the years since revising his ideas about people, ambition, and what makes a company worth building.
Nick Ganju Is Teaching a Phone Call to Think in Time
Zocdoc's founding engineer spent years making appointments work on a screen. Now he is back in the code, trying to make an automated voice understand when a human has finished a sentence.
Oliver Kharraz Is Still Fixing the Waiting Room Before You Reach It
A doctor trained to study the brain. A philosopher trained to doubt his premises. A founder who spent nearly two decades making one mundane transaction - booking an appointment - reveal the hidden machinery of American healthcare.
Florian Otto
Florian Otto is the co-founder and CEO of Cedar, a New York healthcare financial technology company that reworks how patients understand and pay their medical bills. A former physician trained in Germany, Otto moved from medicine into consulting at McKinsey, built a daily-deals business in Brazil that became Groupon Brazil, and ran commercial sales at ZocDoc before starting Cedar in 2016. He built the company around a simple frustration - a confusing hospital bill his fiancee received - and a bigger question: why can't healthcare billing feel as clear as buying from Amazon or Expedia? Cedar has since raised roughly $400M+ and works with hospitals and health systems across the United States.
Richard Fine
Richard Fine is Chief Business Officer at Zocdoc, where for more than a decade he has helped turn a doctor-booking marketplace into what he calls 'healthcare access infrastructure.' A two-time founder with two exits, he built Help Remedies, the over-the-counter brand that made aspirin boxes funny and won a Cannes Lion, and spent years as a brand strategist at Redscout working with Nike, PepsiCo and Diageo. Oxford-trained in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and raised by two epidemiology professors, he frames his work simply: he loves healthcare and hates its incentives, and at Zocdoc he gets to fix both.