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Othman Laraki
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Othman Laraki
@othman
CEO @color, dad, kiter & cyclist, startup helper, Casablanca native
San Francisco, CA เข้าร่วม Şubat 2009
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Software isn’t merely technical work anymore. It’s creative.
Introducing Replit Agent 4. The first AI built for creative collaboration between humans and agents.
Design on an infinite canvas, work with your team, run parallel agents, and ship working apps, sites, slides & more.
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How founders feel when vibe coding their 15th SaaS with zero users:
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Amazing to see how our experimental research AI system for mammography interpretation identified more cases of interval cancers, as well as invasive cancer, and more cases overall, than conventional methods. Plus it could reduce clinicians’ screening workloads by an estimated 40%.
Big step towards a future where AI serves as a reliable collaborator for clinicians.
Yossi Matias@ymatias
Breast cancer affects one in every eight women in the UK, and early detection is crucial. ⚕️ Our latest research in @NatureCancer shows how AI can strengthen early detection efforts for breast cancer. In studies with @imperialcollege and the @NHSuk, our experimental research AI-based screening system identified 25% more “interval cancers” - cases typically missed by traditional screening - while reducing screening workloads by an estimated 40%. Key findings from the studies in thread🧵⤵️
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First step for Yale healthcare affordability lab is to give back the $250 million Yale got from CMS for making quality metrics.
And then to kill the quality metric program it’s been pushing that drives up the cost of care for everyone.
The average hospital has 7 FTE devoted just to quality metrics and the average independent clinic has 1/2FTE per doctor.
That’s all to meet your arbitrary metrics. Eliminate it all.
Zack Cooper@zackcooperYale
Health care in the US is unaffordable. We - the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale - are a new initiative trying to change that. You can learn more about our work here: lnkd.in/eAQSq2-9 We're pairing amazing policy, communications, and political talent with rigorous scholarship in order to make evidence-based change happen. Join us. If you’re a policymaker, tell us about the challenges you face, and we’ll help track down the best evidence to solve those problems. If you're a researcher, share your work. We want to see world class scholarship get out into the world and make a difference in people's lives.
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Scientists just copied a Fruit Fly's biological brain and trapped it inside of a computer.
Not an AI model trained to act like a fly... A total digital copy of a fly !! This is some sick sci-fi stuff:
- They scanned and copied the brain, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse, from electron microscopy data.
- Then dropped that brain into a simulated body in a video game like environment.
The fly walked. It groomed. It fed. Nobody taught it anything. The behavior was already in the wiring.
The entire premise of modern AI is that intelligence is something you train into a system. This is proof it's something you can transfer out of one. Wild times
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross@alexwg
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Curious how @Color built the world's first Virtual Cancer Clinic?
Check out this pod with @chrissyfarr, where we go through our story.
Props to @chrissyfarr for her series on "lifers" - healthcare entrepreneur prisons built of equal parts mission and stubbornness.
Christina Farr@chrissyfarr
This week on Lifers, I interviewed @othman about how he navigated @color through three massive pivots—from cancer genetics to national COVID infrastructure and now a virtual cancer clinic. Timestamps: (00:00) Preview (00:58) Intro (01:03) Lessons from Figma and betting on the tortoise over the hair (02:27) Othman's transition from Google and Twitter to healthcare founder (04:47) Why simple features often become massively scalable business engines (06:27) Analyzing the shift from venture risk-taking to asset management (11:32) Playing the hard mode of healthcare for long-term impact (12:52) Why market structure dictates clock speed more than regulation (15:15) Navigating the conflicting financial incentives of health system CFOs (15:37) Sponsor: Granola (16:16) Navigating the conflicting financial incentives of health system CFOs (cont’d) (17:15) Surviving three pivots by aligning boards and team talent (20:20) Building infrastructure for the world's largest research study (23:34) Leaving money on the table to avoid ephemeral COVID traps (27:41) Launching a national virtual cancer clinic with the ACS (32:08) Focusing on the five high-spend pillars of patient identity (34:36) Closing the gap between clinical guidelines and early-stage screening (35:59) Removing friction to increase cancer screening rates by seventy percent (40:07) Mastering the diverse unit economics of different payer books (42:11) Preserving the nimbleness of private companies over going public (42:23) Wrap
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@CMichaelGibson Thanks for sharing. This is exactly @Color built the LLE model.
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9 months ago @Color partnered with @OpenAI and @UCSF to bring world-class cancer expertise to everyone. To achieve this, we designed a novel architecture that safely integrates GenAI into clinical practice. We call it a “Large Language Expert” (LLE). 🧵
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ChatGPT Health, an #AI triage tool, failed to direct users to emergency care in >50% of serious clinical scenarios & showed inconsistent suicide‑crisis alerts.
This raises safety concerns about reliance on consumer AI for urgent medical triage.
Commentary
mountsinai.org/about/newsroom…
Primary paper
nature.com/articles/s4159…
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“Then I told the horse, ‘cars won’t replace ya, but horses who drive cars will!’”
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Totally. In both cardiology and cancer, the less expensive, but population-oriented services are deeply subject to access friction - and that friction directly translates to later stage / more acute interventions.
I would not be surprised if more than any scientific / drug discovery impact, the greatest effect of AI in healthcare will turn top of funnel healthcare that is seen as scarce and expensive into something that truly feels abundant.
One small example of this is a program the we're doing with Google philanthropically, which offers free mammogram ordering and followups for any woman in the US who meets guidelines (color.com/breast-cancer-…). Things like cancer screening or managing your cholesterol should feel like national utilities - zero access friction/cost.
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Just called the mass general Brigham new patient line to start care with a PCP. after taking down all my info and confirming my insurance they told me...no PCPs are taking new patients in any of the 7 locations in a 10 mile radius to me?!
AI primary care can't come fast enough.
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100%. agree...
This is one of the core drivers of the work behind @Color's Virtual Cancer Clinic. Access to clinical services - with depth in expertise when it's needed - is one of the biggest drivers of high costs and bad outcomes in cancer.
This is driving dramatic changes in screening, stage of detection, speed to treatment, guideline-alignment of treatment and survivorship.
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Case in point, we should regulate AI doctors in the same vein as regular doctors.
Not because AI will replace doctors, rather they will replace waitlists and the lack of access to clinicians.
Matt Pavelle 🇺🇸@mattpavelle
There's an excellent framework for healthcare AI legislation being developed by @AdamMeier20 and the Cicero Institute. They wrote a model bill that gets the fundamentals right: regulate the practice of medicine, not the code. Their AI Medical Services Act creates a new licensed provider type, requires malpractice insurance, mandates transparency, and more. I like this because the safety decisions related to AI in medicine should be made based on open and accurate data. Interestingly, it builds in a regulatory sandbox with a shot clock: 30 days for completeness, 90 days for a decision, etc. I'm glad to see serious people building things like this. ciceroinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
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Tired: Equinox is a dating app
Wired: Equinox is a data center
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@TurnerNovak @ChrisJBakke I was in Doha for the finals & 3/4 games and it was great. Super safe and well organized. Didn’t use a car once after the airport, walked ~15 miles a day to different spots / events. Visas alone will likely make it difficult for a global audience to have similar experiences here.
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Guy who picked Guadalajara as a World Cup venue at the FIFA board meeting tomorrow:
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Othman Laraki รีทวีตแล้ว
Today's guest helped build Twitter's growth engine.
Now he's using AI to catch cancer earlier.
@othman co-founded @Color Health: virtual clinics + AI to transform cancer care access.
He left Twitter to fix healthcare's biggest frictions.
We discussed:
Why most healthcare startups fail
Building credibility in a skeptical industry
AI's real role in cancer detection & care
Aligning with what buyers actually need
The future of virtual cancer clinics
Healthcare breaks when you need it most. Othman is changing that.
Great listen if you care about innovating in tough industries.
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🚨BREAKING: Someone built a marketplace where AI agents hire humans to do physical tasks for them.
It's called RentAHuman and AIs are literally posting gigs for people.
→ AI needs groceries? It hires you.
→ AI needs a package delivered? It pays you.
You can get paid when agents need someone in the real world.
We're not employers anymore. We're the gig workers for autonomous agents.
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