Dentists
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Overtoom: Standard B2B databases like Apollo and LinkedIn fail for SMB sales
“Because if you were to sell to like me, you like find me, you know, in clay and you enrich it with some Apollo data, and then you look me up on LinkedIn, then you know, again, this is the guy that's going to buy my HR system. We can't really do that because Dr…”
Garg: Dentists lack the training and data to make business decisions
“There's a lot of little, little, little things that a business owner, like a dentist who's never really trained to be a business owner, they have to make all these decisions that they can't, and they don't have the right data, they don't have the right skills …”
Garg: Nimble SaaS incumbents will survive any DIY AI software apocalypse
“Many people have tried. Many people will try as they call it the SaaS apocalypse. It's gonna happen, happen in micro places, but most dentists just want to come in, do the work, see their patients, go back home. Will there be more noise? Yeah, there'll be more…”
London: Payroll pain is universal across industries, not unique to tech startups
“It ended up being that the inside is that payroll, the pain from payroll was across industries. It was not just startups. And the pain was strong enough that even if we did not have a personal network with dentists dentists love gusto.”
Inam: Dental diagnosis functions like an art rather than an objective science
“And then I shared my x-rays with other dentists as well, and I got different opinions. And that what didn't sit Well with me where it felt more of an art rather than a science. There has to be one truth, you know, like, what is it?”
Overjet targeted insurers before dentists to bypass FDA clearance delays
“So for dentists, we needed FDA clearance. And that itself is a longer process. So we started the FTA process while we needed actual customers to get the funding, to get to the net, to build what we needed to build.”
Dunford: Half of dental procedures fail due to terrible equipment
“Half the stuff that a dentist does in your mouth is very likely to fail because the equipment is terrible and the way they actually do things like cure fillings is actually really terrible.”
Jaswa: Mandatory dentist supervision unnecessarily inflates teeth cleaning costs
“You can't pay somebody professionally to clean your teeth unless they're supervised by a dentist. And so that's kind of an interesting notion because it's not that complicated a task, and as a result of needing that supervision, it ends up costing way more.”
Kharraz: Zocdoc launched with dentists to maximize patient repeat visits
“So we began with dentists because our thinking was that people go to dentists most often, and we wanted to make sure that we have an offering that is relevant for patients as often in their lives as possible.”
Kaditz: Dentists often provide the first detection of asymptomatic heart disease
“There are papers and research studies that show that there's a lot of diseases, you know, that somebody can be, you know, have no symptoms for like cardiac disease that dentists get the first look at cause it's correlated to gum disease.”