Mustafa Sultan, MD

Thank you, @MustafaSultan @BigPictureMedicine, for having me. It’s always humbling to look back on the journey, and a good reminder of why the work in healthcare continues to matter. Looking forward to continuing the conversation soon! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/137…

We are excited to announce that we've raised $20 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Sequoia Capital, Blue Lion Global and Neo.

A new era for Co:Helm as we introduce our new name and brand identity — Anterior. We are the AI company built by clinicians for clinicians to transform healthcare administration.

@MarianneBevis @jonronson Thank you Marianne :)

@MustafaSultan @jonronson This was such an engaging conversation.

I very much enjoyed talking with Musty!

@hugospiers @jonronson Agreed

@hugospiers @jonronson Much appreciated — he was a big catch!

This is @jonronson's 'The Psychopath Test' pitch to @iraglass — a book which spent 10 wks on the New York Times Bestseller List ...and also convinced me to join med school wanting to become a psychiatrist. That didn't happen. But it was a pleasure learning how Jon writes.

@julian_donovan @Anchit171 🙏🙏🙏

@MustafaSultan @Anchit171 Absolute monster advice here. Skin in the game.

My friend, currently an F2, is looking to leave medicine and wants to know more about what opportunities there are, e.g. start-ups/consulting, etc. Is anyone able to offer advice / speak with him?

@Anchit171 I have no xp in consulting/IB/big law etc etc But if considering it, I think it's worth watching talks like this to get an idea of what it takes youtube.com/watch?v=RpUJfW…

I'm curious, what was your advice for your friend? My take (general philosophy + tangible steps): Philosophy - It's really hard to just jump out of Medicine without having put in years of work developing a skillset/network. The UK healthtech (et al) market is not super hot, and it's competitive. - for every story about a medic successfully leaving, there are 10 who tried and failed - so I'd view this as a multi-year project, not a quick thing - I had a lot of arrogance thinking that Doctors are massively demand in the private sector, just because we are doctors. Not true. People hardly care. - For your initial move out, I think it's worth picking something healthcare-related. At least you'll have a leg up from your clinical xp Assuming your friend is like most of us at the start, i.e. has no sellable skillset outside of Medicine — options are: - Continue in Medicine and start developing a skillset (can go LTFT). E.g. coding healthcare related projects (you'll have much more advice on this), freelance creative work for agencies/startups, beg/borrow/steal to get internships. You need to create a portfolio/body of work you can point to. Realistically, you need to be able to point to a few things that you have made, examples: coding: I created a 'chatGPT' for primary care demo, I contributed to this public repo, I launched this startup creative: I made this creative work for X startup (can be graphics, video, podcast whatever) internships: I led X project which resulted in at this startup - If interested in consulting, bear in mind that landing a position in the most prestigious firms (MBB) is as hard as getting into Harvard. If you're the Oxbridge/London/AFP calibre of Medic — then sure it's possible. But you'll need to put at least 6 months of dedicated work into this. If you thought F1 was hard, you're about to enter something 2x as intense Join fishbowl, start cold messaging medics who have entered consulting, go to consulting 'open days'. (Caveat: I have no xp in this). - an underrated path is via research. E.g. can do AFP/ACP (or research outside of a formal training programme) and leverage these connections to get startup roles. can also use this to develop useful skillsets (data science/python/stats etc etc). - another path is pharma (e.g. medical liaisons). I have no xp with this though. - If you have no idea what you could do, it's not a bad idea to spend a year on learning about the landscape (@azeemaa100's BiteLabs Fellowship, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, MBA/MPH/comp sci type masters... Biggest benefit to all of these is network IMO The best piece of advice I received was to get a blank sheet of paper, and write down everything you've achieved in the last few years. Until this piece of paper looks impressive, I think stay in med and start populating this sheet Caveat: Sometimes through raw hustle/grit/bravery — you can fall into opportunities with no skillset. Definitely worth trying this (essential reading: The Third Door), but don't rely on it More essential reading: the Dilbert career advice dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_bl… "Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix."

@rikrenard Have you been on here? reddit.com/r/overemployed/

Yesterday, I discovered our newly hired account executive was simultaneously working at two companies (Awell + another healthcare SaaS) We obviously terminated his contract immediately, but asked him “Why?”. His reply: I am so efficient that I can do 2 full time jobs in half the time (which wasn’t the case, he was underperforming)💀

@rafael_tiza_f @VamanuAlbert @45graus @cienciasemfim @SpaceToday1 @NEJM_AI @AndrewLBeam @arjunmanrai @hubermanlab Thank you so much Rafael — really means a lot :)

@MustafaSultan @VamanuAlbert @45graus @cienciasemfim @SpaceToday1 @NEJM_AI @AndrewLBeam @arjunmanrai @hubermanlab It's an amazing podcast. Congrats!

🎙️ My 2023 podcast highlights! 🚀 If you're into Science, Technology, AI, and Politics, these are a must-listen: @45graus @cienciasemfim @SpaceToday1 @NEJM_AI @AndrewLBeam @arjunmanrai @MustafaSultan @hubermanlab #Wrapped2023

@VamanuAlbert @rafael_tiza_f @45graus @cienciasemfim @SpaceToday1 @NEJM_AI @AndrewLBeam @arjunmanrai @hubermanlab Thank you! :)

@rafael_tiza_f @45graus @cienciasemfim @SpaceToday1 @NEJM_AI @AndrewLBeam @arjunmanrai @MustafaSultan @hubermanlab Big picture medicine 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@angelosgeo Congrats! Look forward to reading this

Biotech folks, it's here!! 📚🚀 I'm thrilled to announce that my book, The Biotech Leader’s Handbook is now available on Amazon! If becoming a better leader and building a high-performing team matter to you, this book is for you! You have given my work on biotech leadership so much love. Now you can have all my most loved articles, guides, and threads all in one book! A heartfelt thank you to ALL of you for your support, encouragement, and learnings on my journey of empowering biotech leaders and having my own impact on human health through my work. I couldn’t have done it without you. Link in the comments below. 👇 Loving you, Angelos.

Fascinating that in 1958, the standard of care for cardiac arrest was performing a thoracotomy + cardiac massage within 1 min 😮 youtu.be/d45HkjY1pTI?si…

Looking to hire hungriest MD you know. Ideal candidate is highly clinically competent with top tier education, actively looking to join a startup in the earliest stages. Needs to be a doer / builder. Early in career is fine. Well funded deeply ambitious company and team.