Fierce Healthcare September 12, 2019
Ali Diab had no desire to get into the healthcare sector. A former executive with AdMob, Yahoo and Microsoft, Diab said that healthcare seemed “foreign” to him.
That all changed in March 2013 when he had to go to the emergency room with intense stomach pains.
“The pain was so intense that I couldn’t sit,” said Diab, the CEO of the San Francisco-based health technology startup Collective Health. “I was wheeled into the ER. I had my stomach scanned and they discovered a massive intestinal blockage. I was in and out of the hospital for the last six weeks. I almost died.”
But what really surprised Diab and helped inspire him to co-found Collective was getting a bill from his...
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