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You're not going to give somebody an MBA unless it's their passion. I realized over time you have to automate this with software or whatever it might be. So, started to develop this concept behind Simplifeye, realized I'm not gonna change electronic health records. So I need to layer on top of that and modify from the outside in. Don't change a thing in your practice. Graduated from U, so went from Indiana dental to USC ortho, limped along because it was one mexico phone number search of those things where I had my current job as an orthodontist and was doing great.
It's amazing, right? Everybody's filthy rich in Manhattan Beach and pays cash It's awesome But at the same time, every time I was at work, I was thinking about Simplifeye. Every time I was at Simplifeye, I was thinking about my ortho practice. And I knew one had to give. And I learned that, I think, really valuable lesson that a lot of entrepreneurs learn the hard way, that splitting your time just doesn't work. And I think any good investor will also tell you that. At some stage they'll be like, yeah, you have to go full-time. Otherwise you're gonna hire a full-time CEO, or I'm not going to invest in this company. They know what that means to be a full-time CEO.




So I wanted to let somebody else decide for me because it was too difficult. So I decided to apply to the number-one accelerator in the world, and I'm not saying Y Combinator, right? I'm saying AngelPad because their track record is way better, and they only let 12 people in. Y Combinator has a big shotgun approach. AngelPad is very refined and concentrates more on enterprise SMB. So applied there thinking there's no way in hell, and I was just gonna be, I'll be fine with the rest of my life this way. And I got an interview, 15-minute interview, fly out, met Tomas and Carine. And I thought it went really well and didn't get a call. And I was like, aw, man, okay. Cool, moving on. Four weeks before AngelPad was supposed to star, I get a call. Hey, you're coming to New York to do this. I'm like, oh my God, like now I gotta quit my other job. And it was great because it was really my wife that said, "Look, I know you're gonna be the guy at the Thanksgiving table that if you don't do this, you'll always be wondering what if and telling stories of what if. We gotta go do this." So we decided to pack up, leave LA, go to New York City. And the rest is history. We came out number-one in the class, raised $3 million from huge, strategic investors out in Silicon valley with First Round Capital, Felicis Ventures, and what was SoftTech Ventures at the time and now Uncork ventures. And we've been off to the races ever since and just growing and really evolving the story of automation for retail healthcare.