Samir Qamar
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Samir Qamar
@Samir_Qamar
☀️ASTRID — Healthcare AI for a Billion People. Previously Founder @MedWand & MedLion.
Nevada Katılım Kasım 2012
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Just about every >150 iq person I know uses nicotine. Nicotine is underrated and misunderstood
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@_robyn_smith What are the qualifications to become a healthtech founder these days, I wonder…
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I like when founders post bold statements on here but maybe not a health tech founder
Max Marchione@maxmarchione
Just about every >150 iq person I know uses nicotine. Nicotine is underrated and misunderstood
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Patient to agent experiences will evolve beyond chatbots
There aren't many (real) agentic experiences in production today
InvestingDoc@InvestingDoc
Alright I tried one of the "AI primary care doctors" (doctronic) It has a long way to go to improve and it feels a lot like marketing is the big factor here. It's essentially chatGPT like q/a that then links you to a telemed visit with a clinician. It takes at least 20+ seconds to get a reply to any input I type in. Sometimes it takes almost a full minute for it to reply when I answered "no" after it asked me if I take any current medications. It clearly is taking a quick HPI, ruling out things to turf to the ER... HPI seems to be on par with med student ability...not bad. Then it just connects you with a telemed doc waiting on call for you. This is the "AI" clinician? A chat box that just ends up linking you to a teledoc like appt. Got it. Its teledoc with a chatgpt questionnaire.
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@joshuakelly @andrewarruda Something more agentic will come along with amazing user experiences, improved accuracy/security/privacy, etc. Soon.
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@jselanikio @amazonpharm People are desperate for access. If a healthcare focused company can offer what Amazon does in healthcare, you’ll have trust.
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@Samir_Qamar @amazonpharm Indeed. And we can watch how people decide to vote with their feet.
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Same-day Rx delivery in 4,500 cities from @AmazonPharm. Kiosks at clinic lobbies. $5/month unlimited generics. Wegovy pill at $25.
Knowledge -> AI. Diagnosis -> wearables. Treatment -> delivery. How much of the traditional visit is left?
buff.ly/JRhKDvG
#DrYou #TreatmentMigration
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NEW: Doctronic raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract & Lightspeed (total $65M in <1 year)
Its AI care platform delivers 24/7 care across all 50 states, is piloting AI prescription renewals in Utah, and is on track for $10M+ revenue this year.
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@adcock_brett Big co seniors come with big egos, big budgets, & big requests. They like marathons, not the sprint of a startup. Been burned every time.
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I’ve been hiring for 20 years and I’m batting .000 when hiring senior ppl from big established companies. It doesn’t work
Machine Pulse@machinepulse_
What do billionaires optimise for when hiring? @adcock_brett founder of Figure AI discussed what he looks for in a hire on the WTF Online Podcast: "I think the conventional wisdom is to go out and hire somebody really experienced, that makes you feel really good, from a really good background, at a successful company. And I found that playbook is just complete crap. Throw that right out the door. Even now, Figure has gotten to a point where we have these big shots knocking on our door wanting to come work here, from big companies and wherever else. But it's just not the right approach. If you look at every generational company, it's not like they went out and picked the VP here and the VP here and the VP here and put it together. It's like the opposite of what Meta is doing right now. Look at Meta's superintelligence lab. It's like putting 15 Tom Bradys together and making that work. It's just immediately going to collapse. It's not going to work. My view is you just need to find people that really care. That's the core axiom of what I look for in talent."
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@SinaHartung Right now sadly my health info is split between different apps. So sep “dashboards”: Oura, Lifesum, Withings, Zones & 2 medical providers. I loosely also track major stuff in a Google sheet. It blows my mind that there isn’t a dashboard product that unifies everything.
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@Codie_Sanchez The flip - annoying geniuses is a side effect of not being a genius.
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Annoying morons is a side effect of not being a moron.
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@TheMiamiApe My name is Samir Qamar (KAY-maar). I’ve built free healthcare AI for the world.
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Be around people who bring your name up in opportunity rooms not gossip circles.
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@HarryStebbings Honest question - do you expect the same of great founders?
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Every quarter I send an LP update:
Everyone does this through mailing lists.
Do not do this.
I spend 4-6 hours individually sending personalised emails to each LP.
Over 85 emails personally sent every time.
Response rate is 95% compared to 15% on a mass update list.
Do the unscalable things to build trust and relationships.
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@operationdanish The tools are great, but if you don’t have the discipline to use them, no results. It’s why changing human behavior has always been the holy grail.
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@Samir_Qamar There a multitude of tools:
1. AI for info
2. Virtual Care for Access
3. Peptides for personalized treatment
Discipline is overrated and rarely works at scale. We now have real solutions.
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@evanlapointe "I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
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When you hire well, you get to be a leader instead of a therapist.
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@MichaelAlbertMD I took “Physician, heal thyself” a bit too literally. What good is our knowledge if we can’t help ourselves first?
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@Samir_Qamar Wow! You're even more intense in your risk mitigation efforts than I am, and I consider myself in the upper decile.
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What happens to your heart when you stop a GLP-1 drug?
New data from 333,000 patients:
→ 3 years on: −18% risk of heart attack, stroke, death
→ Stop at 12 months: +14% risk
→ Stop at 18 months: benefit fully erased
→ Stop at 24 months: +22% risk
It takes 3 years to build it.
18 months to lose it.
This isn't a drug failure.
It's what chronic disease looks like when we stop treating it.
Full breakdown: substance-over-noise.beehiiv.com/p/special-edit…
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@TVanWelsenes Healthcare builder — built ASTRID to provide free AI health information. Already in 64 countries in under a month.
myastrid.ai
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Are you a founder, builder or entrepreneur?
Let’s connect!🤝
I’ll follow right away!
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@tjparker Brilliant. Your son could lecture startup founders on speed of execution.
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My 5yo son immediately after face planting, yesterday: “You see the problem is, I was skiing too fast, which means I lost my balance. But if you’re falling it means you’re trying hard so I think it’s really not a problem”
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