Jay Rughani @JayRughani
Partner @a16z investing in health & bio software. Prev @flatironhealth (acq by @roche for ~$2b) & @deloittehealth. Professional student. a16z.com/author/jay-rug… SF+NYC Joined June 2011-
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Go @JenniferHli !! Such incredible news. Couldn't agree more w/ @bhorowitz... Jennifer "embodies the a16z culture."
Go @JenniferHli !! Such incredible news. Couldn't agree more w/ @bhorowitz... Jennifer "embodies the a16z culture."
We thank our LPs and Entrepreneurs for having the faith to enable us to continue our journey. We appreciate you so much. a16z.com/new-funds-new-…
Welcome @dramyabernethy to the @insitro team. Looking forward to working together again!
Welcome @dramyabernethy to the @insitro team. Looking forward to working together again!
Whether or not AI improves the health of Americans is up to how we regulate it. @a16zBioHealth's @CF_Rom, @JayRughani, & @vijaypande provide insight on how US policymakers can reaffirm America’s role as the powerhouse of AI and tech innovation: a16z.com/washington-wil…
Healthcare is burdened with tedious, repetitive, error-prone tasks that drive administrative waste, worker burnout, & suboptimal patient care. Tennr is bringing AI automation to healthcare & other complex industries, and we're excited to partner with them on their mission.…
Healthcare is burdened with tedious, repetitive, error-prone tasks that drive administrative waste, worker burnout, & suboptimal patient care. Tennr is bringing AI automation to healthcare & other complex industries, and we're excited to partner with them on their mission.…
How are healthcare leaders selecting AI products? New @a16z pod with 10 healthcare AI buyers: a16z.com/podcast/behind…
😂 Can't put the genie back in the bottle
There has been an explosion of GenAI apps for consumers. Check out the top 100 by usage 👇 Hopefully more coming soon for healthcare consumers, patients, clinicians, scientists, etc...
There has been an explosion of GenAI apps for consumers. Check out the top 100 by usage 👇 Hopefully more coming soon for healthcare consumers, patients, clinicians, scientists, etc...
As policymakers navigate the integration of AI into life sciences and healthcare, it's essential to work closely with industry to consider how potential regulations will enable a vibrant and competitive marketplace and maximize patient welfare. Read more from the @a16zBioHealth…
An instant classic that has only gotten better with time
Congratulations to the Freenome team on a strong financing to accelerate development of their AI early cancer detection platform 🔬💻
Congratulations to the Freenome team on a strong financing to accelerate development of their AI early cancer detection platform 🔬💻
Today, I'm excited to discuss the opportunities for AI to enable 10x better experiences, economics, and outcomes of healthcare at #jpm2024 with John Rootenberg, MD @Roche, Steve Mutkoski @Microsoft, Megan Callahan at Welsh Carson, and our hosts Alya Sulaiman + Anirudh Goel at the…
"We shouldn’t worry about the ability of artificial intelligence to create bioterrorism weapons. Restricting AI’s ability to understand biology and chemistry would pose a far greater danger."
"We shouldn’t worry about the ability of artificial intelligence to create bioterrorism weapons. Restricting AI’s ability to understand biology and chemistry would pose a far greater danger."
Christina Farr @chrissyfarr
92K Followers 3K Following Author/owner of “Second Opinion," a health-tech newsletter read by 19,000 industry professionals. Investor. Advisor. Mama.Rik Renard @rikrenard
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10K Followers 2K Following investing in bio, healthcare, AI @bessemervp | MD candidate @brownmedicine | editorial team @NEJM_AI | bayesian, he/himTweets from Zach Wein.. @zachweinberg
59K Followers 349 Following I do healthcare & tech stuff. Founder of https://t.co/uJTXjZVNJt, Flatiron Health (acq @Roche~$2b) & Invite Media (acq @Google~$81m). Invest @ https://t.co/2D00yW2Be4Brendan Keeler @healthapiguy
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4K Followers 1K Following Investment Partner @a16z focused on healthcare. Reluctant tweeter. Other interests: poker, theater, memoir, white noise. Alum: @Meta @YaleLawSch @StanfordGSBDavid Ulevitch 🇺�.. @davidu
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32K Followers 740 Following Founder, GP, & Managing Partner of a16z bio+health. Founder, Folding@home. Investor, Scientist, Engineer, Founder. AI, Bio, everything in between. https://t.co/X4mRNyio9SRuby Gadelrab @DivaBiotech
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10K Followers 2K Following investing in bio, healthcare, AI @bessemervp | MD candidate @brownmedicine | editorial team @NEJM_AI | bayesian, he/himAaron Levie @levie
2.5M Followers 629 Following Lead Magician (and CEO) at Box (@box); Huge ABBA fan. I don't fully endorse anything I say below. Go ☁Tweets from Zach Wein.. @zachweinberg
59K Followers 349 Following I do healthcare & tech stuff. Founder of https://t.co/uJTXjZVNJt, Flatiron Health (acq @Roche~$2b) & Invite Media (acq @Google~$81m). Invest @ https://t.co/2D00yW2Be4Brendan Keeler @healthapiguy
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11K Followers 1K Following VC Partner @7wireventures empowering consumers to be better stewards of their health. Digital health enthusiast. Storyteller. Boy mom x 3!Blake Madden 🏥 @B_Madden4
14K Followers 1K Following I break down the $4.5T business of healthcare after working on the inside. Essays on strategy, M&A, finance, health tech, & more. Texas ex, golfer, fatherGarry Tan @garrytan
432K Followers 4K Following President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized—PM/designer/engineer who helps founders—YouTuber—San Francisco Democrat accelerating the boom loop—e/accJosh Wolfe @wolfejosh
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One thing that's so unique about current use of LLMs is that application logic is being abdicated to them. I can't think of any other time this has happened. Normally infrastructure moderates resource usage, not logic and correctness.
2/ Plus, we got into how AI is revolutionizing drug discovery by transitioning from traditional to precision methods enabling faster, more efficient, and effective drug development and what this means for businesses building in the space. Listen here: a16z.com/podcast/the-po…
@venturetwins The models oscillate between reminding me I’m bald and reminding how much better I’d look with hair
Had a fun convo with @immad and @rlacerte We chatted about the impact of genAI across fintech and how they maintain culture + retain & recruit top talent at @mercury and @billcom a16z.com/forecasting-fi…
Can we benchmark open source medical LLMs? Thanks to @huggingface, we now have the Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard 🚀 This leaderboard tracks and ranks LLMs based on their performance in medical question answering tasks. It evaluates LLMs on a variety of medical datasets,…
Managing @brian_armstrong's "Mission First" announcement as head of comms at @coinbase was one of the biggest challenges I've had in my career. It was the right thing to do, but very painful to execute internally and externally b/c it was so controversial at the time. It came…
How times change. @coinbase was vilified for its "leave your politics at home" policy Now Google has adopted "mission first" too! fortune.com/crypto/2024/04…
In “Do software companies actually have good margins?”, Benn Stancil makes a case for a counterintuitive point : Software companies are much less profitable than they might seem. Why? Because the research & development costs associated with software should be part of their cost…
"It's more advantageous to structure decisions to be easily reversible than to take too much time trying to make the perfect choice." - @ShaneAParrish Have never heard it worded this way, but it captures the guidance I give product teams alllll the time.
AI Grant has a tuba that plays you offstage if your pitch goes long, and I think all demo days need this
#drake x #TaylorSwift x #kendricklamar 1 the biggest artist in the world just found a new way to collaborate with other (dead) artists 2 tech and culture are cross referencing each other in crazy ways - backward ref to Tupac via ai, forward ref to Taylor in her new album drops
Drake dropped a Kendrick Lamar diss track using AI voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg. It’s called “Taylor Made Freestyle” and is wild: ▫️ “AI Tupac” and “AI Snoop” rap verses Drake wrote trolling Kendrick ▫️ Drake shouts out Taylor Swift (“Biggest gangster in the music game, I…
@stuffyokodraws @satishtalluri @appenz @Mascobot @BornsteinMatt @rajko_rad @AnjneyMidha @martin_casado @venturetwins 2. Venture is an apprenticeship business, and I owe all my career growth to two amazing mentors @martin_casado and @bhorowitz. I'm forever grateful to you for taking a chance on me 6 years ago, for supporting me throughout, and for shaping my investing and leadership style. 🙏
1. I couldn’t have reached this milestone without the infra team, who are truly first-class. They are the source of wisdom and creativity I tap into daily. I’m proud to fight alongside this group - pushing what’s possible for founders and setting new standards for the industry.
✨ Thrilled to share the good news that I’ve been promoted to General Partner. It’s such a privilege to step into this role alongside our first-ever AI x infrastructure fund and lead our efforts in backing transformational enterprise and infra companies.✨ a16z.com/new-funds-new-…
"The infra life chose us, we chose the infra life." @bhorowitz @martin_casado @zanelackey @AnjneyMidha @BornsteinMatt @stuffyokodraws @rajko_rad @venturetwins @Mascobot @appenz @satishtalluri @sarahdingwang Joel de la Garza
We've raised a $1.25B infrastructure fund! We love all infra, compute, network, storage, databases, data science, gen AI, dev tools ... from silicon to UIs. Infra is the true root of value in tech. And we're deepening our commitment to it. a16z.com/new-funds-new-…
You can never underestimate the power of sunshine and the first warm temps of the year. 🌞
Over half the hospitals in the country operated at a financial loss last year. From labor shortages to health worker burnout, AI can help solve some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. But, at the end of the day, even the best models will fail without broad…
🦙 Exciting news in open AI (not OpenAI) - Meta just introduced Llama 3, their next-gen open source large language model. A few interesting notes: 1. Fun to read that the model team didn't even have access to their own high-quality human eval set used to assess real-world…