Guest
Charles Nader
President, CEO and Chairman · Doc.com
Charles Nader studied medicine in Mexico, where watching patients queue for hours outside Mexico City's general hospital inspired him to build a free, smartphone-based telemedicine service. He now leads Doc.com, a for-profit company funded by a vertically integrated pharmacy that was preparing to list on the NASDAQ.
1 episode · Product & Innovation · Startups & Founding · Raising Money & Investors
Mexico in particular, a lot of these people, they don't have bank accounts. They didn't have credit cards amazingly enough. Even the poorest of everyone still had a smartphone.
the world doesn't need more specialists. You actually need more preventative medicine, more primary care to guide you in the right direction to be easily accessible.
We built our business around solving the problem. You know, what is the problem? Access to health care. It wasn't just focused on trying to make money.

