Doximity excels at acquiring hard-to-reach doctors using data science
Rebecca Lynn · VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Jul 13, 2017 · at 23:05
Rebecca Lynn, General Partner at Canvas Ventures, highlights medical network Doximity as an exemplary application of data science for acquiring and retaining healthcare professionals.
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“I would say Doximity does an amazing job of acquiring, engaging, and retaining the doctors on that platform, because doctors are probably the hardest customer out there to actually acquire, and the way they have applied AI, and they just constantly tune their, I don't know if I'd call it AI, to be honest, it's data science, right? And constantly tuning those models, it's pretty impressive.”
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