
Othman Laraki
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CEO @color, dad, kiter & cyclist, startup helper, Casablanca native
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2009
RT @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-foun….
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RT @brettberson: When most people think about domain experience, they imagine spending decades in a field. But there are countless examples….
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I hope it’s useful for founders building in new markets. I love the depth and thoughtfulness the @firstround team brings to understanding the non-linear and nuanced experience of teams taking the path less traveled. Read here:
review.firstround.com
Color co-founder and CEO Othman Laraki built a billion-dollar company in an industry he had zero professional experience in. Here, he shares four product-building tactics that helped him learn the...
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Thirteen years ago, I founded @Color without any experience in healthcare. Learning a new industry as you build requires you to constantly revisit your assumptions. On the @firstround Review, I share what I’ve learned from our years-long iterative building process, from the.
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RT @firstround: Having a beginner’s mindset can help you build a more resilient product — by being open to getting a lot wrong. @othman or….
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"Employers are also reporting steep spending on cancer. The disease was the top condition driving costs for the fourth year in a row in 2025, due to the growing prevalence of cancer diagnoses and the rising costs of treatment, the BGH found.".
healthcaredive.com
Employers surveyed by the Business Group on Health are bracing for the largest annual increase in healthcare costs in more than a decade — a sobering prospect, one expert said.
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🦾🧬🚀.
Proud to announce @ChaiDiscovery has raised a $70M Series A from @MenloVentures & Anthology Fund (@AnthropicAI), @ThriveCapital, @OpenAI + others. 🧬 Chai is an applied AI lab building frontier tools for molecular design. This funding will power our new models, coming soon👇
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RT @karlmehta: BREAKING: Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund ran a 12-month AI experiment. They gave Claude access to their entire investment….
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RT @jeremylshane: Great insights from @othman on the @hoh_pod with @halletecco on accelerating cancer care. There is such a need to overcom….
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Instead of worrying about job loss to AI, AI agents replacing shitty human service should be celebrated.
1/ After 3 wonderful weeks in Europe, my family and I were ready to head home. Instead, British Airways stranded us in a glass tunnel in 100° heat with no flight, no updates, and no path forward. It sucked. But it also showcased how AI could do customer support much better. 🧵
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Give it a listen:. Apple: Spotify:
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The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast · Episode
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8/ @Color has managed to collaborate and partner with top institutions like NIH and Memorial Sloan Kettering. At the heart of this has been our scientific and care delivery depth. You just can't reduce healthcare to a software problem - and it's OK to embrace that.
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7/ @Color's AI in Healthcare thesis is different than most. We don't believe in a super-intelligence black box, but a fully controllable decision system. We don't think the world will converge to a consensus, but rather that we can now build tools that give us super powers.
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