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work on a team of A-player athletes, doing the best work of your career, and helping get life-saving drugs to the people who need them

Neon Health | AI agents in healthcare | Hiring Eng and BizOps | SF, Remote (North America)

* Senior Backend Engineer | SF, Remote (North America) | Full-time | $170-225K + equity

* Growth chief of staff | SF | Full time | $125K–$195K + equity

* Applied AI Systems Engineer | SF, Remote (North America) | Full-time | $120-180K + equity

We’re mission-driven capitalists: making life-saving drugs more accessible, and building a $200B+ company—on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow—serving the largest healthcare enterprises.

Traction: profitable and growing fast. Selling 7+ figure contracts to enterprise healthcare customers.

Team: built by exited founders, YC & MIT alum, ex-Tesla, ex-Google engineers.

Top investors: funded by elite Silicon Valley VCs who've backed unicorns like DoorDash, Lyft, and Mammoth Biosciences. And strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections.

Outsized impact & opportunity: work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes.

If you want to work on a team of A-player athletes, doing the best work of your career, and helping get life-saving drugs to the people who need them, apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neon-health (and make sure to mention HN!)

Neon Health | AI agents in healthcare | Hiring Eng and BizOps | SF, Remote (North America)

We’re mission-driven capitalists: making life-saving drugs more accessible, and building a $200B+ company—on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow—serving the largest healthcare enterprises.

https://neonhealth.com

We are hiring:

- Applied AI Systems Engineer | SF | Full-time | $120-180K + equity | https://app.dover.com/apply/Neon%20Health/2a584d2f-bf5f-4b03...

- Senior Backend Engineer | SF, Remote (North America) | Full-time | $170-225K + equity | https://app.dover.com/apply/Neon%20Health/d651be36-95d2-49f6...

- Business Operations | SF | Full-time | $125-195K + equity | https://app.dover.com/apply/Neon%20Health/93db8680-f307-4d7f...

- Chief of Staff | SF | Full-time | $125-195K + equity | https://app.dover.com/apply/Neon%20Health/72c4ede5-da6c-420b...

Traction: profitable and growing fast. Selling 7+ figure contracts to enterprise healthcare customers.

Team: built by exited founders, YC & MIT alum, ex-Tesla, ex-Google engineers.

Top investors: funded by elite Silicon Valley VCs who've backed unicorns like DoorDash, Lyft, and Mammoth Biosciences. And strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections.

Outsized impact & opportunity: work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes.

If you want to work on a team of A-player athletes, doing the best work of your career, and helping get life-saving drugs to the people who need them, apply here: https://neonhealth.com/careers#open-positions (and make sure to mention HN!)

Updated to make that more clear - thx again

Good question! Our frequent offsites allow us to get most of the benefits of a tight-knit in-person team, while still having flexibility to bring on teammates working outside the SF Bay Area.

TLDR: - We have a preference for SF Bay Area-based teammates, but are open to remote – as long as they can work PST hrs. - And we have frequent offsites to bring the team together.

Neon Health | Founding Sr Backend Engineer | SF, Remote (North America) | Full-time | $170-225K + equity

https://neonhealth.com

We’re mission-driven capitalists: making life-saving drugs more accessible, and building a $200B+ company—on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow—serving the largest healthcare enterprises.

Traction: profitable and growing fast. Selling 7+ figure contracts to enterprise healthcare customers.

Team: built by exited founders, YC & MIT alum, ex-Tesla, ex-Google engineers.

Top investors: funded by elite Silicon Valley VCs who've backed unicorns like DoorDash, Lyft, and Mammoth Biosciences. And strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections.

Outsized impact & opportunity: work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes.

If you want to work on a team of A-player athletes, doing the best work of your career, and helping get life-saving drugs to the people who need them, apply here: https://dub.sh/YC250601 (and make sure to mention HN!)

LMAO

"infinite games" + "positive sum" => "infinite sum"

has big Sarah Palin energy: "refute" + "repudiate" => "refudiate"

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2010/11/15/13133...

Anyone have data on that?

Curious to see how API usage compares. I imagine those are the most durable / high value use-cases for openAI as a business

Hella ASMR from listening to this guy

Can you add support for pinyin mandarin?

Gross to see toxic attitudes normalized like this. These folks could all benefit from reading the 15 commitments of conscious leadership https://conscious.is/15-commitments

In particular the bit about taking responsibility for ones circumstances

I commit to taking full responsibility for the circumstances of my life, and my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. I commit to support others to take full responsibility for their lives.

vs

I commit to blaming others and myself for what is wrong in the world. I commit to being a victim, villain, or a hero and taking more or less than 100% responsibility.

Great point.

And even worse: after spending the time to infer what the user wants -- the software might guess wrong.

Therefore it probably makes sense to constrain the software's use cases -- either i/ to specific functions (e.g. product, eng) or ii/ to specific roles across functions (e.g. management, support desk triage)

An added benefit of constraining use cases like this is that it's easier to market to a specific use case.

1/ Task planning: https://sunsama.com

Sunsama helps me proactively plan my "big rocks" for the week/day. I like that you can drag tasks to the calendar and timeblock them that way. it also tracks the time on each task which helps me calibrate how long things actually take.

2/ Inbox for Slack https://dispatch.do

I spend a TON of time in Slack. I used to feel distracted by unimportant messages and constantly worried about losing track of important messages. Dispatch helps with both issues:

i. Filtering out distraction: it's much easier to separate out the important messages from everything else. I can set rules and filters to route messages into different "Inboxes". e.g. Important, Clients, Product, Other, etc.

ii. Keeping track of messages: it treats messages much like an email inbox. Messages stay "open" until I explicitly mark them "done".

Startup growth strategy w/ Eric Dodds, head of product marketing at RudderStack

Highlights

Focus:

The best way to have success is to do a smaller number of things — but to do them really well so that you maximize your chances of success with them. We put all our energy behind exploiting the one or two main advantages that we had over the incumbent.

Find the efficient frontier:

We think about growth channels in terms of the ‘efficient frontier’. At a certain point, the returns from a growth channel start to level off — like a logarithmic curve.

The productivity lie:

Getting through all your Slack messages can feel like productivity, right? But it’s not! It’s so easy to fall prey to this really pernicious lie.

Thanks for the shoutout re https://dispatch.do

Cal Newport's work may help. Check out "A World without Email". https://www.calnewport.com/books/a-world-without-email/

The Acquired podcast does case studies of successful acquisitions:

https://www.acquired.fm/

It's an amazing show

They address this in the linked blog post: https://plausible.io/blog/the-analytics-tool-i-want

When I looked around I was fully ready to pick up another tool and install it on Gigride immediately. > Turns out there are some alternatives for Google Analytics but I didn’t find any of them compelling. Simple Analytics and Fathom are the closest to my ideal but they are a bit too barebones to be useful for my use-case. For example, it’s quite important to me what browsers versions my users are on – if I use a css rule that isn’t supported in IE7, how many users does it affect? Neither Fathom or Simple Analytics provide that answer currently. > This seems like an opportunity to build the tool that I really want.

hybrid browser-cloud-file data architectures

Epic.

Thanks for open sourcing this!

Curious to hear more about your UX vs HCI thesis

Dispatch | Hiring Employee #1 | SF & Remote (North and South America) | https://www.dispatch.do

Founding Engineer, Full Stack https://bit.ly/DispatchFoundingEngineer-fullstack

Founding Engineer, Backend / Infrastructure https://bit.ly/DispatchFoundingEngineer-backend

Why Dispatch: We live in a world of constant distraction. Pings from email, Slack messages, and app notifications battle for our attention. We end up feeling burned out and ineffective. Slack fatigue. Yet-another-SaaS-tool. The problem is growing astronomically as more workers go digital.

Dispatch is putting an end to distraction at work. We're building the universal priority inbox that protects your attention, so that you can focus on what's most important. We have laser focus for our early product/GTM wedge, and a massive vision. And we're recruiting employee #1.

Our Team:

- CEO: YC alum, exited founder

- CTO: UPenn M&T alum, early engineer at Opendoor

Drop us a line: careers@dispatch.do

This is such an annoying problem for anyone building a chat app. Very elegant solution. Thank you

set up the accessibility shortcut on your iphone to turn on greyscale. this makes your phone much more dull and less distracting

Great clickbait, awful content

Formula: 1. set up strawmen on either extreme 2. argue for the middle

Being sales-led vs product-led is not about your specifying your "company DNA".

It's about choosing the go-to-market strategy that maximizes your LTV:CAC.

And as the market changes, so too can your GTM strategy.

As evidence: HubSpot successfully transitioned their GTM from sales- to product-led. OpenViewVenture published a guide explaining it:

https://openviewpartners.com/blog/hubspots-5-strategies-for-...

Looks like the core insight is 100 minute hours so that you have enough time to get in flow for deep work.

Love that it integrates w/ GCal!

this extension has helped me save a ton of time on distracting websites -- particularly Hacker News

I also love DK's other extention, hidefeed.com, which I use for sites like LinkedIn where i need to go to do work, but don't want to get sucked into the newsfeed.

To all the negative replies: yikes!

To me, this seems like a good faith effort to improve work life for your teammates, and build a company where people feel well-cared for.

Remote teams inherently have more communication friction than co-located teams, and - if we want to bridge some of the resulting emotional gap - we'll need new practices to do so.

Incidentally, what OP suggests isn't anything new. Just Google "red yellow green check in"[1].

I've found three ways of building emotional honesty and openness: 1/ regular 1:1s to listen to your direct reports and build trust 2/ lead by example 3/ every week we have a team meeting. During that meeting, everyone on the team answers a question. The question gives them the opportunity to open up about some aspect of their life -- to be better known and understood by their teammates.

[1] https://blog.travis-ci.com/2016-06-09-start-meetings-with-pe...

We do this at retriever.co for our virtual assistants, in two areas:

1. we have applicants do a data transform with an esoteric excel function that they've /almost surely/ never used, and prompt them to find videos / tutorials on how to use it if they don't know (which, we assume, they wont)

2. we have people answer fake customer support tickets that require them to do some on-the-job learning about the Internet Service Provider industry -- to a level of detail that requires that they read through and grok a page on wikipedia explaining up-time calculation.

While neither of these pieces of knowledge are necessary for their day-to-day at Retriever, they allow us to stratify candidates' ability to learn new skills and grok new information.

100% would recommend!

All of this sophisticated engineering makes [the 17 qubit processor] at least twice as powerful as the [16 qubit processor].

Isn't an n+1 qubit processor always twice as fast as an n qubit processor?