Josh Sabol

Building (YC W25 🚀). Quips on tech, markets, and product management. Ex-Product @aws, @ottimate_ap, and startups.

[Josh Sabol @JoshSabol]

Excited and honored to announce that HealthKey’s been accepted to @ycombinator's W25 batch 🚀

Some stats about my journey so far:
- 727 days since I left my day job
- 546 cold calls to get my first customer
- 23 months working without a paycheck
- $52,779 of biz expenses on my personal credit card
- 3 YC applications, 1 interview… acceptance 🎉

Building a startup in healthcare is not for the faint of heart. But it’s incredibly fulfilling. This is the story of never quitting.

HealthKey began out of my own (negative) patient experience — I hated that doctors never knew my past medical history. So I set out to build tools for clinicians to make it better.

After 5 distinct product iterations, and 6 months working tightly with our early customers, we finally have a taste of product-market fit. So this really is just the beginning.

Today, HealthKey helps doctors' offices generate more revenue by enrolling their patients in clinical trials, and matches at-risk patients with cutting-edge treatments. Big Pharma pays a lot of money to clinics for each patient they enroll, but finding patients who qualify is an entirely manual process. We use AI to prescreen doctors’ existing patients against Clinical Trials’ eligibility criteria, making enrollment fast and easy. We’re live with several clinics already and are processing 1000s of patients per month.

Expect to hear more in the coming weeks about our product announcements, case studies, new EHR integrations, etc.

I want to close with extreme gratitude for all of the support I’ve received on this journey. To my early customers working so hard with us to innovate. To my team: @negcx , @ckalpit , and the many others who helped along the way. To the 34 friends/family/angels who invested in November 2024, 2 weeks before YC’s acceptance. To our group partner @t_blom & the YC community. To my family & girlfriend, who’ve shown extreme patience and endurance. You’re true believers. Thank you ❤️

If you’ve read this far, you might as well stick around and help out! Know any Research Directors / Clinical Operations / Principal Investigators at medical practices? Tag them below!

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@marclou I had that same rationale in Q4 2021, investing weekly. So at the end of the year I took the rest of cash and put it into the market. Portfolio dropped 50%.

Don't learn the wrong lesson.

https://t.co/5LtHI8GdE7

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2015 S&P Down 📉: Graduated college. Broke.
2016 S&P 📈: Broke.
2017 S&P 📈: Broke.
2018 S&P 📉: Broke.
2019 S&P 📈: Broke.
2020 S&P 📈: Broke.
2021 S&P 📈: Finally invest 💰 at end of year
2022 S&P 📉: Portfolio down 50%. Broke again.

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@anothercohen It's not that you fucking hate it — it's that it really displeases you too.

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@rrhoover Did you read the book?

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@GFarrugiaMD @mickytripathi1 @Microsoft Looking forward to implementing it in HealthKey to help find more patients for clinical trials at Mayo!

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And here I thought it was already priced in

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Rev Med is the star of the show at ASCO for their pancreatic cancer therapy

Boosted 12mo overall survival to 1 in 2, up from the current standard of care (1 in 5).

Incredible work 👏👏👏

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New Rorschach test just dropped:

Lotta VCs picking on Corgi

Nothing from A16z.

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so strange that Service Status pages don't have a "Is {service} down for you?" buttons

like why tf else would I be going to this page?

all green up time is just gaslighting

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@RoupenMD PIs are compensated, many in the $ millions. Easily searchable on OpenPayments.

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@hannahhhhaha people are going to think this is AI

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all squirrels can be flying squirrels if they dream big enough

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@garrytan LFG Ghita & team!

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*takes $2M tokens*

*resells them discounted for $1.5M during the batch*

*0 -> $1.5M in 2 mo = $9M run rate*

"We're revolutionizing the AI token supply chain ™️™️"

*acquirer offers 30x multiple*

*sell for $ Quarter Billion in 2 mo*

*apply again for the summer batch*

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches.

We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it.

https://t.co/gNl84ElBrq

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@arya_marwaha @ContrarioAI Let's go Arya!

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@javilopen how to vectormaxx

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@patrickc I was a fan until I noticed that it's just wallpaper

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"We locked 100 twenty-somethings in a room to work 100 hours a week for 100 days. And the winner gets a $100M SAFE."

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if you're wondering what a $3M conference booth looks like

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🕺

[RaceJohnson @RaceJohnson]

discomorphism

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@erikdunteman not if you're doing it right