![]() ![]() ![]() A year later, at that event, he convinced In desperation he camped out for hours at a practice with five doctors they acquiesced, giving him enough names to fill out a scroll-down menu. ![]() “I was in a pretty sad state,” he admits.ĭays before debuting ZocDoc at a tech conference in San Francisco, Massoumi had only three names in his database. (That happened two more times all three practices are now clients.) He moved with his wife to a dingy apartment in Harlem she left him after the ceiling fell on their bed (they weren’t home). ![]() After sitting in one lobby for eight hours, security personnel escorted him out. Massoumi has come a long way since he wandered Manhattan knocking on dentists’ doors. In February former Senate majority leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist joined ZocDoc’s corporate advisory board. (on top of $15 million led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund). Last fall Massoumi bagged $75 million in funding from billionaire Yuri Milner’s DST Global and In the last year available appointments posted on jumped 120% to 6.6 million, while unique visitors to the site increased fivefold to 1 million a month. ZocDoc is now in 15 cities, including New York, San Francisco and Dallas. On their 50th birthdays ZocDoc members get an e-mail that reads: “There was recently a 13% drop in new cases … because more people are getting colonoscopies.” ZocDoc’s software catalogs each physician’s insurance plans and appointment calendars. Crows Massoumi: “Sick people get to see doctors faster, and doctors make more money every day.” Allan Fine, head of operations for the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, estimates that the 120 doctors in his network who have signed up with ZocDoc have landed 9,000 new patients in a little over two years. The online service is free for patients doctors pay a $250 monthly fee to be in ZocDoc’s database-less than the cost of three canceled checkups. To ease the suffering, Massoumi launched ZocDoc, a website that allows patients to make doctors’ appointments much like Open Table arranges dinner reservations. ![]()
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