Jonathan Baran

On a mission to unf*ck employer sponsored healthcare. Founder / CEO, Self Fund Health

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Pharma’s direct-to-consumer play through TrumpRx probably won’t move the needle on net drug costs. It’s less about savings and more a direct strike at PBMs and their rebate games.

Any “discount” patients see is basically the rebate that the PBM would have received.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major driver of healthcare cost

[Brianne Kimmel @briannekimmel]

The most rewarding moment for a founder is not when their company is successful.

It's when early employees spin out and successfully start their own.

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@jasonfried As a non-technical CEO, how do you know your eng team (assume no DHH!) is making the right decisions about things such as architecture, code quality, and tooling? #askjf

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

There's nothing quite like the magic of a small team, perfectly aligned in accomplishing the slightly impossible.

It is electrifying, inspiring, and surprising every time.

Don't take this magic for granted if you're on such a team today. It is very rare—most never experience it

[Bob Kocher @bobkocher]

The downside of strong growth in health care jobs: higher costs https://t.co/JryOfY6FiZ via @statnews

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@chrissyfarr It’s not less than 1%. Getting systems to invest people time is far harder than getting them to pay money. If a startup makes it through the sales gauntlet, it means it’s solving a problem the org really needs to solve. At least 1 champions will fight to see the pilot stay alive.

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@john_chilmark That’s a popular narrative and one that fit the description of most vendors. The better vendors know the ideal workflows, but the clinic/hospital decides to maintain the status quo despite being urged otherwise by the vendor.

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@tobi @waitbutwhy What are your lessons learned in making this idea a reality?

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The latest post by @waitbutwhy calls this type of culture an Idea Lab. It’s the best mental model I’ve seen to describe the dynamics of a high performing start-up team. Great teams should strive to become Idea Labs.

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https://t.co/pkwE0kJkyH

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@bhorowitz puts into words what we all feel, but never had the courage to say.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing.

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This feels like one of those times when changes in regulation are going to enable meaningful new innovations to come to market https://t.co/Gl0UP1RFRU

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HiTrust certification is one of the few ways you can invest in shortening Health IT sales cycles. The certification allow you to short circuit the end-less questionnaires and meetings.

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My presentation from the 2019 Epic App Orchard Conference where I shared my lessons learned building an electronic medical record app company:
https://t.co/QljSVRSaj5

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@GolfAdvisor @MattGinellaGC Have you heard anything about preview play?

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@jasonfried @PeterAttiaMD Hi Jason - can you talk about employee incentive structures and how they can create “calm” workplaces? I know at Basecamp you have foregone traditional options grants in favor of profit shares/an employee pool if Basecamp were to exit. Has that worked for you?

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Lots of good nuggets here. Well said Andrew.