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This guy had a simple, important idea and wouldn’t stop pushing until it was implemented. He probably saves hundreds of thousands of lives.

August Health | Multiple Engineering Roles | Remote (USA) | Full Time

Our mission is to empower the essential work of caring for our elders. We achieve this by providing a modern operating platform and electronic health record that enables senior living operators to deliver high-quality care with confidence.

Caregivers are the heart of senior living communities, embodying care, compassion, and well-being. Yet, they face increasing challenges—higher resident acuity, complex workflows, and staffing shortages. At August Health, we build tools that simplify their tasks, eliminate inefficiencies, and provide the insights they need to focus on what truly matters—caring for residents.

Our team brings together deep expertise in technology, healthcare, and company-building. We’ve led teams at Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe, co-founded and exited multiple companies, shipped products used by hundreds of millions of users, and managed clinical teams caring for thousands of patients.

Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are partnering with some of the largest senior care organizations in the U.S. to transform the future of senior living. Our team is ~50 employees today.

See roles here: https://www.augusthealth.com/careers

I am a co-founder and ceo. Feel free to reach out (email in profile).

August Health | Senior Backend Engineer | Remote, USA | Full Time | https://www.augusthealth.com

We're a growth-stage (Series A in 2022) company that builds technology to enhance the quality of care for vulnerable older adults. Our product is guiding the transition from complex, paper-based practices in the long-term care industry to a digital platform solution that unlocks the power of personalized care, predictive analytics and happier caregivers. We're proud that we absolutely delight our customers: https://www.augusthealth.com/customer-testimonials.

Our team brings together deep expertise in technology, healthcare, and company-building. We’ve led teams at Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe, co-founded and exited multiple companies, shipped products used by hundreds of millions of users, and managed clinical teams caring for thousands of patients.

Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are partnering with some of the largest senior care organizations in the U.S. to transform the future of senior living.

Technologies we use: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Postgres. You don’t need to have specific experience in all of these, but the ability & self-motivation to learn them is a must.

Please apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/august-health/85e7580b-58cd-440c-ba...

Given they’ve open sourced the model and their training techniques, shouldn’t it be pretty easy to get an order of magnitude estimate on if their training estimates are in the right ballpark?

Because they refurbished it and it’s back up after 40 years (we didn’t just suddenly communicate with extra terrestrials).

The amount of real engineering that must have gone into a system like this is incredible. They didn't have the benefit of being able to iterate on an existing technology -> this is real hacking.

Having worked on the streets dataset for a FAANG, I'm blown away at the ingenuity here.

These are uncannily on-point. Amazing how the model incorporates mostly unwritten, but often accurate subtext into these outputs.

Gsuite / Google for Work user?

There is a newly enforced limit on (paid!) Google Workspace accounts - you can only share files with non-Google users up to 5 times each calendar month. Note that this doesn't cap external accounts, just those that are non-Google. So want to share with your personal Gmail account - no problem. More than 5 @hotmails - nope!

Only way around is to upgrade to a plan that is double the price.

"Important: If you use a Google Workspace Business Starter or Frontline account, you can share files up to 5 times each calendar month with non-Google accounts. Each time is defined as sharing one document with one visitor."

Not sure who at Google thought this was the right way to upsell business accounts. Also, there is no mention of this limit in any plan description (eg. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6043385).

Feels like a shake-down.

I went through some of what you’re writing about: start-up, acquisition, handcuffs, sabbatical-mode, and now newco.

Feel free to email me, happy to chat it through.

"it was an industry that definitely could use some quality solutions."

> Check us out! augusthealth.com

Explain this regex: https://twitter.com/jwblackwell/status/1598090447854792705

How do I represent a differential equation?

https://twitter.com/jdjkelly/status/1598021488795586561

Find the bug:

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1598042665375105024

There are two aspects here:

- being efficient with your time: not wasting time on distractions, keeping meetings short etc.

- knowing what to spend time on: doing the activities that will actually drive to your goals rather than feel like you are.

We called them and asked if we could come visit in person and learn more about their business. I think you’ll be surprised how open people are to help - especially if you’re curious and let them talk about themselves.

I'm the founder of a venture-backed company in my 30s with two young kids under five. My co-founder is also in the same boat. A few points:

1. My wife works in a well paying field (nothing crazy, but comfortable), and we were financially stable enough to be able to live without my salary for a couple years.

2. We were very customer focused from day one, even before we incorporated. We signed up several customers (using LOIs) with just a deck, before we wrote any software.

3. We discovered a very clearly defined problem, a payer and clear willingness to pay.

4. I don't work like I used to. I feel much wiser about how I spend my time rather than brute forcing it with hours. Because of the two kids, I effectively work 9-5, M-F. I don't work weekends. During 9-5 though, I am dialed-in (I don't spend time reading the news or checking instagram). I delegate much more aggressively than I used to. I don't think I'm actually outputting much less than I used to, I'm just more efficient and focus on the more important things.

5. Venture - this is what it's for. There is still a bunch of venture out there for seed/pre-seed. We raised money early on and that allowed us to take small salaries (and hire folks to delegate things to).

100% it's definitely not as easy to start up in this stage of life, but it's also not impossible. Happy to connect with folks who want to connect (commiserate?) about this situation.

Easy to move it back if I do want to convert back to fiat at a later date?

Being in product and engineering management for more than a decade, Linear is hands down the best tool I’ve used for ticketing. It would be hard for me to work somewhere if I wasn’t able to use it. Features are well designed, the tool is delightful to use and the design is world class. Also, there isn’t a tool I use that feels faster - it’s like they know what I’m about to click on before I do.

Ranking - VC

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339 - A16Z

11 - Sequoia

5 - Y Combinator

1 - Union Square Ventures

133 - Accel

I'm (slightly) biased, but wanted to mention that Sid is an exceptional engineer, manager, and a pleasure to work with.

Second this, and not just for fashion. I went through amplify.LA at our geospatial analytics startup, Mapsense. The amplify folks were some of our best investors.

ATC audio of the event: https://archive.liveatc.net/ht/kpbi-kfpr.mp3

August Health | Account Executive / Customer Success | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

August Health is an early-stage company that builds technology to enhance quality of care for our elders. We're looking for the second sales hire to join our team and help us create a repeatable sales motion within our core target customer base. So far all sales have been founder-led, but we've been overwhelmed with opportunities and are looking to scale up quickly.

There’s enormous opportunity to tackle major white space accounts, define process and sales strategy, onboard and coach new reps and work with the founders. More here: https://www.notion.so/augusthealth/Account-Executive-2bfb907...

We're also on the lookout for our second customer-success hire. We're growing fast enough that we're starting to focus on setting up repeatable implementation/onboarding processes and streamlining customer success to helping our customers do well. More here: https://www.notion.so/augusthealth/Implementation-and-Succes....

August Health is very well funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors and is working with some of the largest senior care organizations in the Bay Area and across California. We’re on a mission to promote compassionate personal care for frail elders while transforming the way the industry operates. We’re helping communities move through a much needed digital transformation so that all resident care, operating information, and compliance risk are housed within the August Health platform rather than a notebook or file cabinet. We're scaling quickly and this is a real opportunity to join a quickly growing startup.

Contact me: erez AT augusthealth.com (No recruiters/agencies please)

That's one interpretation of this article, but the other is that we can't really build anything big in this country anymore because of red-tape, regulations, and competing government fiefdoms.

From the article: "They point with frustration and embarrassment to successes in countries around the globe — particularly China, which has built more than 20,000 miles of high-speed rail in about two decades."

Sure - nobody wants a $100B high speed rail line between Fresno and Merced. But why can't we build what everybody actually wants - a high speed rail between SF and LA with a reasonable price and timeline? This isn't an issue of engineering, it's an issue of management.

August Health | Account Executive / Sales | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

August Health is an early-stage company that builds technology to enhance quality of care for vulnerable older adults. We're looking for the first sales hire to join our team and help us create a repeatable sales motion within our core target customer base. So far all sales have been founder-led, but we've been overwhelmed with opportunities and are looking to scale up quickly.

There’s enormous opportunity to tackle major white space accounts, define process and sales strategy, onboard and coach new reps and work with the founders.

The ideal person is eager to:

  - Acquire new accounts within a pre-determined list of communities
  - Help define and iterate on sales processes as we learn and grow
  - Own and lead deal cycle from the first call to the close 
  - Pitch and demo August Health to communities
  - Ensure high activity to align with pipeline generation goals
  - Create satisfied, reference-able, and referring customers

  - 1 - 3 years of software selling experience to SMB or Enterprise accounts
  - Hunter appetite for opening and closing new accounts
  - Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth, selling environment preferred

Contact me: erez AT augusthealth.com (No recruiters/agencies please)

This site is another example.

Yeah, I even own some physical Stripe Press books. But it's definitely not core to payment processing.

Stripe Atlas has a better case for being useful: more companies -> more stripe users.

Stripe Press feels more like a passion project (which, to be clear, I think is awesome).

I was just using cnn as an example of a generic news website today.

I hadn't heard about Works in Progress before, but looks like incredibly well researched content. Pretty stark difference between the writing and what you see on something like sfgate.com or cnn.com.

I find it pretty awesome that the Stripe is successful enough to start branching out from core product into founder hobby areas. The cynical perspective is that this is not core to the product, but I find it kind of beautiful that the founders can do a bit of what is personally interesting to them with their company.

This reminds me of another incredible resource for deep learning articles: https://distill.pub/, which unfortunately looks like is going silent.

August Health | Frontend/Backend Engineers | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

August Health is an early-stage company that builds technology to enhance quality of care for vulnerable older adults. We're looking for a few experienced engineers to join us, especially folks with several years of experience building and shipping complex, consumer-grade applications.

Our development team is a small group of capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.

Technologies we use: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Postgres. You don’t have to have experience in these, but the ability to pick them up.

Stuff we'd look for:

  - 4+ years experience working shipping code in an engineering organization and familiarity with software development cycles
  - Ability to thrive in a startup environment that’s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no ‘right’ answer
  - Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team
  - Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices

Feel free to email me at erez AT augusthealth.com to learn more.