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HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
- ▶ 11:56 Payal Kadakia If you looked at ZocDoc, a lot of them were approaching this through, first, go and sell a SaaS platform into the various partners, and then you build the consumer end on top.
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Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 0:57 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how two friends pounded the pavement in New York City to convince doctors to sign on to their new booking service, ZocDoc, and how they grew that idea into a business valued at nearly two billion dollars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:21 Oliver Kharraz Um, but I also, uh, Cyrus and I both, uh, financed the company early on out of our own savings, so that clearly diminished, uh, you know, how much money we had left over after that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 Guy Raz Did you, did you have the name ZocDoc from the beginning? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:57 Guy Raz So you decide to pursue ZuckDuck, and it's the three of you, I'm assuming, really, just at the beginning.
- ▶ 26:43 Oliver Kharraz Yeah, we flew out to San Francisco, and so we launched DocTalk in front of eight, 900 people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 Guy Raz How Oliver and Cyrus begin to drum up interest in ZocDoc and how they even start to raise some money after they figure out how to dress differently.
- ▶ 30:07 Guy Raz So, it's 2007, and Oliver, Cyrus, and Nick are basically powering through with ZocDoc, going door to door, trying to convince doctors it's a valuable service. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Oliver Kharraz Business plan unseen, just based on the fact that we, uh, were giving up our careers at McKinsey to pursue ZocDoc.
- ▶ 38:06 Oliver Kharraz To the next level, we have to prove that ZocDoc isn't just a New York City phenomenon, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:02 Guy Raz Um, and in that year, your valuation, um, of ZocDoc went, went past a billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:38 Oliver Kharraz And, uh, and, you know, Zocok needed to make a choice, uh, which, which direction wanted to go. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:05 Guy Raz There was an article in business, I think Business Insider, and it was about the sales team at ZocDoc that year. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:49 Oliver Kharraz And so, uh, the economic impact for the providers in New York was much greater than for the providers in Georgia, Colorado, or Washington.
- ▶ 1:00:27 Oliver Kharraz And so we actually released, uh, the ZocDoc video service and we made this available to, uh, any, uh, physician, whether they are on ZocDoc or not, uh, for free. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 Guy Raz That's Oliver Karaz, co-founder of ZocDoc. 2 times in the scene
ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
- ▶ 21:03 Payal Kadakia Right, and at the time, I was really obviously inspired by, you know, products like OpenTable, SeamlessWeb, ZocDoc.
- ▶ 29:09 Payal Kadakia Right, because it worked for OpenTable, and it worked for Seamless Web, and it worked for ZocDoc.
- ▶ 45:24 Payal Kadakia And so I thankfully, you know, raised a bridge round from, actually Cyrus from ZocDoc helped me