Kyle Doherty’s Post

Hiring the product leader is an important milestone for any company - small or large. Should you hire a 'poet' or a 'librarian?' What are the common gotchas? What qualities should you look for? And as a founder/CEO, what can you do to help the incoming product leader be successful? If you've grappled with these questions and/or are in the process of hiring your product leader, you may find the following essay useful. Many thanks to my collaborator Thomas Eisenmann as well as the contributors to this essay - Samuel Clemens, Maggie Crowley, Drew Houston, Steve Kaufer, Andrey K., Adam Nash, Prem Ramaswami, and Jared Smith (Qualtrics)

Today we at General Catalyst are excited to announce a $50M investment with our good friends at Andreessen Horowitz for Hippocratic AI, the first LLM built specifically for the Healthcare industry, from our Creation Strategy. AI has the ability to fix so many healthcare problems around the world, and Hippocratic AI is key to our Health Assurance future. Hippocratic AI stands out for its safety, performance, and compassion. Building responsible AI is paramount, and Hippocratic AI is committed to human feedback loops with medical professionals in every healthcare situation, starting with patient navigation, enrollment, medication reminders, and more. And Hippocratic AI has led an innovative approach to measuring bedside manner with standout scores for empathy, ease, and helping the patient take control, knowing healthcare works best when patients from all backgrounds and walks of life feel empowered and heard. Hippocratic AI's early performance is incredibly promising. We believe strongly that we have to carefully bring this technology into our industry through radical collaboration with healthcare partners and workers, and with health assurance at the core of everything we do. Of course none of this would be possible without dedicated healthcare partners (incl. physicians, administrators, Medicare professionals, and AI researchers) building Hippocratic AI together: El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford University, Google, and NVIDIA. Today is an exciting day for the future of human health. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gQRvV9wu Hippocratic AI's benchmarks: https://lnkd.in/gpe6xYnn General Catalyst's approach to Responsible AI: https://lnkd.in/gjb3kZ9X #healthcare #ai

I am so excited to announce Ponto’s $20m seed financing; helping us make payments and banking on top of blockchains effortless. With this capital, we are expanding our trading systems, regulatory presence, and headcount (come join us!) in order to support the demand for Ponto’s first APIs. I am incredibly proud of the team at Ponto for making financial interoperability across crypto and local currencies possible around the world. We are now onboarding customers, so if you want to build global, secure payments or banking on top of crypto, get in touch! Thank you to David Fialkow, Katie Hall, Giuseppe Stuto, Julian Fialkow, Rahul Prakash, Kate Rohacz, Michael Stoppelman, Sep Kamvar, Rene Reinsberg, Ophelia Cai, Greg Rosen, Mike Dudas, Aadil Mamujee, Bardo Droege, Kyle Doherty, Mary Gao, Saul Klein, Marek Olszewski, Jason Pinsky and so many other extraordinary people for believing in our mission and supporting us on this journey. More to come. #ponto

Congratulations to the Local Kitchens team for opening kitchen #6 in Roseville, our first outside the SF Bay Area! My favorite guest review so far: "I ordered online and selected a 12:00 pick up. As I pulled up in the parking lot at 11:59, I got a text saying my order was ready 😊 Shout out to Local Kitchens for having food ready when they said they would!" Come find us at 10357 Fairway Dr Ste 130, Roseville, CA 95678, and at https://lnkd.in/gAbvxQSW :)