Building Propel. AI for the patient relationship in online healthcare.
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Access to healthcare is getting easier. The patient relationship is becoming the hard part. Here’s our thesis on what comes next, and why we’re building Propel.
Cracked team building the future.
My bet is these problems are going to get solved by end of 2028 @advaith_sridhar
Today, we announce five Grand Challenges in Material Science. We’re also committing $1M in prize money to anyone who can solve these challenges.
AI can solve Millennium Prize problems in math. Can it do the same in material science?
To find out, we reached out to 10 leading professors to identify the hardest open problems in the field.
The healthcare store will need a patient engagement layer.
teapaw.org/jasgrowth/status/21079…
@a16z State of Longevity report is out!
@evajsteinman and I surveyed 500 Americans to predict what's next.
We're also interviewing people at the cutting edge of health & tech about what they do themselves. My interview with @hubermanlab is out today.
This is the future for health.
At Propel we help consumer health brands build exactly this so even they can provide an Instinct like experience to their patients!
DM me if you are a consumer health brand owner and want to give your patients the best experience.
Thanks for the shoutout @Sachin_TWCN !
Much appreciated.
Last week, i promised to display healthcare startups on different platforms.
A few showed up on X.
Feel free to connect with them.
Here are their links:
1. @mytwillot - They have built Twillot to turn your Twitter bookmarks, likes, and history into a searchable personal knowledge base with AI classification and local export.
2. @trypropel.ai (From trypropel.ai) founded by @jasgrowth
3. Curovana.com - AI for Healthcare, built by @mihircurovana
4. Sandhive.io - It turns my Product Announcements into Shareable Posts. Built by @CatGodSandHive
Best wishes, folks.
Keep doing great work.
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Claude is doing To GPT, what Google did to Yahoo.
It's been more than 2 decades, yet, nothing can beat customer obsession and just old school wild execution!
Jaskaran Lamba retweeted
If you're looking to join a startup, you should know that you’re not there to learn. You’re there to be useful and learning is a side effect. No one is coming to train you. You've to figure it out. If you need permission to do things, you’re already too slow. If you see a problem and walk past it, you just accepted mediocrity. If you’re not embarrassed by how much you don’t know, you’re too slow. If you’re replaceable, you didn’t push hard enough. The best people make themselves impossible to ignore.
Adding AI in already existing SaaS tools is like retrofitting Wagon Rs with CNG cylinders.
AI native tools are like building EVs.
What will you choose?
Jaskaran Lamba retweeted
Ghibli images are so Y2k.
So I vibe-coded a tool in a week that animates images into a Ghibli movie using GPT 4o.
Try it out and lmk what you think: videomemories.ai
We at Propel(trypropel.ai) are looking for high agency folks to come join us and build the agency of the future!
Have multiple openings - numerous-tea-ca8.notion.site…
If you're someone who wants to sit in the driver seat and control the future, hit us up.
#HiringNow #AI
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”