Abdelhaq Laraki

-MBA, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
- Sup de Co, Sophia Antipolis, France

[Abdelhaq Laraki @larakitweet]

Proud to be one of the first Salesforce customer in Africa.
Happy birthday to Salesforce team

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

Happy 21st Birthday Salesforce! March 8th 1999 we started at a small apartment at 1499 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Now 50K employees, millions of Trailblazers, & guidance of $21B in FY21. I’d like to thank all of our Ohana for making salesforce a great company! Mahalo!

[Othman Laraki @othman]

The AI Revolution in Cancer:
Grab your musket & don't wait for a silver bullet.

Ask any AI frontier lab leader what AI will do for humanity and "cure cancer" tops every list.

The image is always the same: miracle drugs. That's not how it's actually playing out.

...

[Yutori メ 🇲🇦 ⭐️⭐️ @Yutori_ma]

🇺🇸🌍 🇲🇦La déclaration des États-Unis à l’ONU sur la nouvelle résolution est un signal clair:

´l’autonomie est la seule base crédible de négociation.´

L’ONU, le monde et le droit international est avec le Maroc.

[Othman Laraki @othman]

AI will change our healthcare experience - much more than it'll change how care is billed and documented...

Today, @Color and @Google announced a program that allows any woman across the US to get direct access to mammograms - thanks to AI.

[Othman Laraki @othman]

✈️💙 @united leads with action for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

It's a big privilege for @Color to partner with @united on the effort to support the health of one of America's largest workforces (and a workforce that does so much to ensure the safety and satisfaction of hundreds of millions of people every year).

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[First Round @firstround]

Building a company in a space you’re not an expert in? Start by following the money.

To learn a new market, @Color co-founder and CEO @othman recommends breaking down how a transaction moves through all the “pots of money and incentives.” That’s what he did when immersing himself in the healthcare industry — a space he had no prior experience in before Color.

“Who influences, who decides, who sets the price, who sets the terms, how the transaction actually occurs and how you get paid — this is what you have to untangle,” he says.

Here’s how he mapped it out when building Color.

[First Round @firstround]

Having a beginner’s mindset can help you build a more resilient product — by being open to getting a lot wrong.

@othman originally teamed up with @eladgil to build a cheaper genetic test for cancer screening. An engineer and former Google and Twitter PM, he had no experience in healthcare. So he started with what he knew: building a product.

But simultaneously learning how the healthcare industry operates turned out to be a years-long iterative process. He wound up changing many of his initial assumptions and ultimately pivoted away from direct-to-consumer testing — incorporating what what he’d learned to build an even better solution.

Today, @Color is a billion-dollar virtual cancer clinic that has partnerships with the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health.

On The Review, he outlines the steps he took to build a product in a new industry, from mapping the flow of decision-making to studying the incumbents.

[Othman Laraki @othman]

Vibe coding: use AI to each parallel play & do breadth-first exploration

Hive coding: use AI to go deep together to productize and ship code

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

Bitcoin is the future of money. But it needs more design.

Bitcoin Design Week will bring together skilled Bay Area designers to jam on making future money more usable, beautiful, and human.

I’ll be there. You should come too.

Sep 15-19, 2025
https://t.co/g89xqp4ap5

[Othman Laraki @othman]

Instead of worrying about job loss to AI, AI agents replacing shitty human service should be celebrated.

[Color @Color]

Color + @MSKCancerCenter = faster paths from diagnosis to treatment.

The @SFBusinessTimes spotlights our collaboration to expand access and accelerate care.

Read more: https://t.co/aUB7lKuTmt

#CancerCare #VirtualCare #MSKDirect #ColorHealth

[Color @Color]

Why are we still separating the mind from the body in oncology?

Our latest blog explores how we can do better—for patients, survivors, and caregivers alike.

https://t.co/CmfDP2On0p

#MentalHealth #CancerCare #WholePersonCare #ColorHealth

[Othman Laraki @othman]

On the last point, I’ve been amazed by the patient feedback we’ve been getting. It’s validation that cancer care is in dire need of change towards modern, accessible care for everyone that technology now makes possible - @Color's mission for over a decade. A few of my favorites:

"I like all the dedicated professional staff. The at home kits were easy to understand, easy to complete, very helpful with making sure all health issues were addressed. I want to live a long time and want to be proactive to control my health and my well-being and having the screenings done at the appropriate time is important. Excellent service.”

"My care advocate was awesome with follow up. She helped me make an appointment for a Colonoscopy and an Endoscopy, making sure it would be covered by my insurance. I’ve since made an appointment with an OBGYN Oncologist and we have a preventative care plan that includes surgery."

"I listened to my company’s webinar on Color and immediately signed up. They do the insurance for you and find the right doctors for you. So I’ve been trying to get a colonoscopy for a year but it never rose to the top of the list with young kids. Just to have someone do it for you is what I need. When I heard that you can do it for me, I thought, ‘THIS IS MY ANSWER.’”

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[Othman Laraki @othman]

Since the start of the year, we've:
- Covered nearly 500,000 eligible lives.
- Tripled our in-house care team, adding multidisciplinary experts, including board-certified oncologists, nurse oncologists, and oncology dietitians.
- Doubled engagement rates at launch, on track to exceed 20% enrollment in 2025.
- Welcomed approximately 100 patients in treatment, 350+ survivors, and 200+ caregivers.
- Increased cancer screening adherence by up to 77%.
- Launched an AI Cancer Copilot, reducing patient workup time from 2 hours to about 11 minutes with over 95% accuracy, speeding path from diagnosis to treatment.
- Achieved a 9.5/10 program feedback score, with 10/10 among in-treatment patients.

[Othman Laraki @othman]

Wow - Hard to believe we're mostly through Q1 2025! It's been a full-throttle start of the year for @Color's Virtual Cancer Clinic (in partnership with @AmericanCancer), and I'm incredibly proud of the team's achievements.

Some highlights from a big start to 2025...

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

@sm Interesting. How does the game play differ in the Lake Tahoe version?

With D&D version (and no familiarity of D&D), I had to rely on my knowledge of how classic Monopoly worked, so there the consistency saved me.

[Othman Laraki @othman]

It's wonderful to see the work the @Color team has been doing with @Teamsters Union to manage cancer from screening through treatment and survivorship. The best part of our work is impact the lives of folks who serve all of us behind the scenes every day.

Some notable quotes:
"One employee received an early-stage diagnosis for a cancer that may otherwise have been deadly. The cost savings of later-stage treatments for this one member covered the genetic testing program for the year, Scheeler says."

"In the year since adding access to these at-home kits, Teamsters has seen a 12% increase in employees up to date for cervical cancer screening, an 11% increase in those up to date for colorectal cancer screening, and a 19% Increase in those up to date for prostate cancer screening."

"Color's involvement in the treatment process yields a $20,000 average savings per avoided hospital stay."

https://t.co/7TpxexMUas

[Othman Laraki @othman]

One of the most interesting dimensions of LLMs is that they create a "software interface" into all information. Today, code programmatically works mainly with data in databases. We are increasingly able to operate on the 99% of the world's content that's unstructured.

[Scott Kominers @skominers]

Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅!

Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)².

It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116.

But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀

[Morocco First 🇲🇦⭐️⭐️ @TheRealMarroqui]

Le Royaume du Maroc rend hommage aux victimes des inondations dans la région de Valence en Espagne lors du Marrakech Air Show 🇲🇦🇪🇸 @MAS_Airshow2024

#Maroc #المغرب_أولا #Morocco #velencia #Espana #ReyFelipeVI @EmbEspanaRabat @MoroccoInESP