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by panic 3840 days ago
Becoming a doctor requires years of education and training and along comes this young woman who just decides "I'm going to change all of this."

You don't need to be a doctor to hire doctors. Aren't startups supposed to be all about this kind of disruption by outsiders? People who come along and decide "I'm going to change all of this"?

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Perhaps not, and perhaps she has a gifted eye for talented medical professionals/chemists and/or is able to put people in place who do but it's still a company being built by someone who doesn't really have the deep domain specific knowledge that would be required to make truly informed decisions. How many tech companies were founded by people with literally zero experience in tech? probably not many except medicine is even harder to learn. While you can spend all day reading Stack Overflow and writing apps to become a reasonable programmer it isn't like you can do the same thing with Web Md and become a reasonable doctor.