Jay Desai
Co-Founder, Lumi Heart. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jay Desai is the founder and former CEO of PatientPing, a healthcare coordination platform acquired by Bamboo Health in 2021. He previously worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and currently builds Lumi Heart while actively angel investing.
2shows
2appearances
16statements
3resolved
1supported
1contradicted
33%fully supported
Everything Jay Desai said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Desai: Keeping a day job prevents desperate startup revenue grabs
“It makes it a little bit easier where it feels like instead of coming from a place of like, I need to start making revenue like as fast as possible because I need to recoup my investment, which is essentially draining from my personal bank account. To, Hey, li…”
Summarize.com pioneered per-minute pricing that competitors later copied, says Desai
“We actually did it first. So I started per minute and then now basically all the other competitors are also charging per minute as well.”
Desai: Having multiple standard OKRs is the exact opposite of focus
“Three of them. One, grow revenues. Two, deliver more value to customers. Three, build a great team. A couple of undistracted, sorry, a couple of distracted, highly unfocused quarters later, we realized that those three OKRs could be universally applied to any …”
Desai: Allocating budgets is the fastest way to waste company money
“I've found that there is no faster way for money to disappear Then allocate a budget against something.”
Why Desai gave up 50% equity to a technical co-founder
“We actually decided to split it down the middle. And the reason for that is because a few other competitors started popping up as well around the same time. And I don't have a technical background and these other competitors also had like two or three co-found…”
Desai: Explicit CEO-VC alignment creates a significant competitive advantage
“I think that both VCs and CEOs should explicitly be willing to call out what I'm calling CEO VC fit. Or founder VC fit. Because when that's right, it really does add to the company's unfair advantage.”
Desai: Building massive startups requires VCs with sustained high risk tolerance
“If a founder's scope of ambition is to generate billions of dollars of revenues and indeed build the next Apple. Then it can be even more frustrating to partner with the VC who's more conservative and looking for predictable doubles or triples because hitting …”
Jay Desai: PatientPing will connect all 5,000 US hospitals
“Yeah, so for Patient Ping, there, there's 5000 hospitals in this country, and we're going to connect them all.”
Desai personally invested just $100 to bootstrap Summarize.com
“Completely bootstrap. My investment personally was about a hundred dollars, which we've way more than over like got back at this point.”
Desai will quit his day job when Summarize hits $20k MRR
“So for me, I think our goal for the end of the year is to reach about 20 K and MRR. That's our big like goal. I think we're making a lot of progress over there and that can be, it doesn't necessarily have to be a hundred percent, 20 K MRR. It could be 20 K and…”
Summarize.com operates profitably with a monthly burn under $325
“So our monthly, our burn essentially per month is about 250 dollars. The last time I checked this month, we might be actually closer to about 300 or 325. But yeah, we are profitable.”
Desai: People Over 65 See Average of Seven Doctors Across Four Clinics
“In actually, in fact, people over 65 get care from on average seven doctors across four different clinics per year.”
Desai: Summarize.com average order value is about $28 monthly
“So our average customer pays us close to 30 dollars a month. I think our, the last time I checked our average order value is about 28 dollars.”
Desai built the Summarize.com MVP in one week using no-code
“It took me about a week to build out the MVP. We get a break actually at Captivate Talent between Christmas and New Year. So I spent that week building out a first version of the product. Launched at January first. And the first version was built on no code.”
Summarize.com has 30 subscription customers and 70 total paying users
“So we have about 30 customers on the actual subscription, but we also have a pay-as-you-go model, and we've acquired more customers through there. So we have like a total of 70 customers, around 70 customers that are basically have paid for the product at some…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jay's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-Founder, Lumi Heart | 1 | 10 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Top Founders → |
 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder, Lumi Heart | 1 | 6 | 50% 1/2 | full record on 20VC → |