Health Tech Founders Dinner in SF

Last night I attended a Health Tech Founder Dinner at Anatolian Tavern in San Francisco. It was hosted by Tyler Brown and Luke Hartman.

Attendees:

• Andy Nguyen, PhD, Chief Science & Technology Officer, Neatly Health
• Jonathan Lin, Co-Founder, Apacendo Health
• Justin Ith, Co-Founder and CEO, Aria
• Luke Hartman, Co-Founder, Sematic Health
• Soham More, CEO, Rely Healthcare
• Tyler Brown, Co-Founder, BloomText
• Myself, Founder CEO, Paubox
  

Overheard at the table (sans attribution):

• Jira in relation to Linear: “That's some boomer tech."
• “Hype is everything“ when fundraising
• Do not use a Lime bike on Market Street
• 70% of doctor notes during a patient visit don't make it to the EHR
• As of six months ago, there are more AI agents than humans on the web
• If you make your Luma RSVP page public, you'll get riff-raff. 

See related: Fireside chat with Patrick Collison and Karri Saarinen

The bottom line:

• Living in San Francisco makes me a better CEO. I learn faster and I'm exposed to new ideas and people.

Anatolian Tavern

Being my first time to Anatolian Tavern, Claude recommended the following:

• The Kalecik Karası (Sevilen, Türkiye) at $15 is the move. It's a Turkish grape you rarely see stateside, light-to-medium body, red-cherry and spice, and it flexes across meze and grilled meat without fighting either.

• Lahmacun to split as a starter (roll it up with the tomatoes and sumac onions), ezme or a small meze spread with the house bread, then the Adana kebab as your main if you eat meat.

Enjoy the pics!

Andy Nguyen is an SF native, which is pretty rare

Jonathan Lin (right) networked right until his Uber arrived for his flight back to SEA. He didn't even get to hang out for dinner. Impressive.

Soham More (left) sharing his thoughts on Founder-led selling with Tyler Brown

Luke Hartman (right) is fired up for the journey ahead

Tyler Brown (left) and Justin Ith swap stories about the peaks and valleys of running a startup.