Doug Hirsch

Co-Founder and Board Member, GoodRx · 1 appearance on the record.

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Hirsch co-founded GoodRx in 2011 to provide prescription price transparency and discount coupons, serving as co-CEO through its 2020 initial public offering until 2023. Prior to GoodRx, he was an early employee at Yahoo!, served as Vice President of Product at Facebook, and founded the online health community DailyStrength.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hirsch: GoodRx spends hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing
“We spend hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing”
Doug Hirsch Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 16:37 Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook

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Insight
Hirsch: Healthcare platforms must optimize for outcomes, not time spent
“Remember I came from the world of social. Like I was at Facebook and Yahoo where time spent was like the God metric. It was like, oh my God, we just care about as many eyeballs and as much time as we can. And it could actually, it's less about time spent. It's…”
Doug Hirsch Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 25:52 Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
Assertion Supported
Hirsch: GoodRx spends hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing
“We spend hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing”
Doug Hirsch Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 16:37 Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
Disclosure
Hirsch: GoodRx features 24/7 live nurse chat on drug pages
“We have a program right now where we actually have a nurse, a live, 24 seven nurse chat sitting on a drug page. So you can actually talk to a nurse about the drug.”
Doug Hirsch Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 28:36 Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook Jul 27, 2022 4m
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