Jalil Allabadi on how COVID has created an inflection point for health tech

Episode 11 August 18, 2020 00:44:35
Jalil Allabadi on how COVID has created an inflection point for health tech
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Jalil Allabadi on how COVID has created an inflection point for health tech

Aug 18 2020 | 00:44:35

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Show Notes

Jalil Allabadi started working on Altibbi.com, a health-tech startup out of Jordan in 2011. It was the first attempt to digitize an Arabic-Arabic medical dictionary published by his father, a prominent Jordanian surgeon. What started off as 15,000 terms is now 100,000 medical terms across 2 million pages. In 2016 he saw an opportunity to change his business model and decided that the real opportunity is in telehealth - the ability for patients and doctors to connect online and on demand - a feature that has witnessed mega growth at the onset of COVID with 1 million online consultations performed in 6 months! Jalil shares his journey into entrepreneurship, his challenges with finding a suitable co-founder, fundraising and his vision for Altibbi.

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