Last year, reports said the company was seeking to raise $152 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, adding to the $97.9 million war chest it's amassed over the years. ZocDoc, which was founded in 2007, is one of New York's biggest startups. I'd love to share ZocDoc's plans with him and learn more about his path to success, and how he attracted so many great leaders to grow and run his diverse businesses.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. So, along that same vein I would want to meet Steve Jobs who transformed, PCs, animation, music, mobile and more. Given my focus on focus, I'm also impressed by people who have been able to succeed at several different things. RJ: If you could ask anyone for advice / have lunch with anyone, who would it be? What would you ask?ĬM: Healthcare is an industry that's in deep need of transformation, so I admire those who have successfully transformed industries. Especially when you are first starting out, you may have scarce resources and it's important to focus on how you can make the biggest impact with what you have. But I would say that by and large, success is dependent upon doing one thing really well and perfecting it before branching out. It's easy to be tempted to do too much, to get distracted, and to be pulled in different directions. RJ: What's the number one piece of advice you have for other entrepreneurs?ĬM: Stay focused.
I'm particularly proud to report that the doctors who kicked me out of their offices in those early days are now on ZocDoc. population and more than 1.7 million patients use our service each month. We're now covering over a third of the U.S. We wanted to make sure we perfected the experience before expanding to new specialties and to new markets. We slowly started to gain traction among both patients and doctors, and we spent our first two years refining our service in New York City, just for dentists. I was even escorted out of a few of those offices. At the very beginning, I went door to door to doctors' offices with a PowerPoint presentation and a sketch of the future ZocDoc interface. Five years later, we're glad we didn't let the naysayers convince us they were right. RJ: How long did it take to make your business idea into a reality? How long did it take before you started making money?ĬM: When we first started out, people were not shy in telling us that we were overly ambitious to think we could change the way patients access healthcare.
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