After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2007. People would visit my website; see my Google calendar; choose a time and input their symptoms; my iphone would alert me; I would make a house call; they'd pay me via Paypal; and we'd follow up by email, IM, videochat, or in person.

Fast Company calls me The Doctor of the Future. I've got a design and consulting firm called The Future Well. Read more about me here.

  • There are some customers which we choose not to serve. We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that.

    Genius. The most important part of a business is deciding who aren’t your customers…I love that dude.

    Steve Jobs talking about Netbooks on the most recent AAPL earnings call

    Apple F4Q08 (Qtr End 9/27/08) Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha

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