Physician Founded Ep. 13: Dr.Joshua Landy Pt. 1

🖥️ Programmers have StackOverflow, doctors have Figure1 👩‍⚕️.

Technology has allowed us to share our experiences with others at a scale larger than ever before, and it has great benefits for professionals in every field. This week, we talk to Dr. Joshua Landy, co-founder of Figure1, an application democratizing medical education and connecting doctors together.

Find out how he got into medicine, came up with this new idea, and dealt with the challenges of starting a new company on Part 1 of a scintillating conversation.

 

3:50 - 9:50 - Learning best done “the hard way” through real-world experiences, right? Dr. Josh Landy shares why he doesn’t think so - and also the reasons for his passion for internal medicine.

10:25 - 15:20 - Discussing stocks has nothing to do with medical learning, right? Wrong again! Josh shares the story behind the founding of Figure 1, a case sharing platform for medical professionals.

15:40 - 18:00 - The making of - what goes into making a new app, and getting people to use it at the start? The road to Figure 1 was perhaps smoother than most, but Josh shares the lessons he learned about gaining traction and product-market fit in the context of a medical learning tool.

18:50 - 25:00 - Growth isn’t necessarily something that we normally associate with healthcare (apart from expenditures) - but how can an audience of a medical learning app be coaxed into growth? Josh shares the design trials and tribulations he and his team faced around this issue.