lloydarmbrust

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2x YC, OwnLocal W10, now RonanRX S26
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Comment · 1 month ago
I'm just asking if you've ever used one.

I don't want to assume, but if you've used one, you would understand the benefits are far greater than weight loss.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yes. I've done it before with medical devices. Pharma is surprisingly similar, but there's more testing.
Comment · 1 month ago
We've definitely been focused on the more important parts first. I just need one flight from SFO to Austin to fix this website issue.
Comment · 1 month ago
The truth is a lot less exciting. We got into YC and registered the company name that night, and the domain name was available. The Ro connection was pointed out later. If we are forced to rebrand, we will be more thoughtful.
Comment · 1 month ago
So cool! Hundreds of careers and even families came from OwnLocal!
Comment · 1 month ago
I see what you did there, and I approve this joke.
Comment · 1 month ago
Have you tried a GLP-1?
Comment · 1 month ago
This is a really beautiful site. Thank you for sharing it.

I think the only thing that separates us is that we manufacture the drugs and probably own more of the supply chain than they do. But they're doing a much better job on the front end.

Comment · 1 month ago
She’s been doing supervised fine-tuning since 2017.
Comment · 1 month ago
You seem to know a lot about this, and I was nodding along with a lot of your points as I was reading.

I was Stripe's first customer in 2010, so we solved the credit card processing issue :) it turns out that being in YC is good for more than just money.

You are right about HIPAA, everyone thinks this is much harder than it actually is, but GCP, OpenAI, Linq, everyone has given us a BAA.

We're definitely not trying to go after the market of people that are comfortable buying from Chinese suppliers and risking their health. When I built my mask factory, our masks were absolutely more expensive than Chinese masks, but what people were buying was a guarantee that it would meet certain filtration requirements. Some people are willing to pay for safety, but it's not important to everyone.

The only thing I really disagree with with you on is that this isn't a YC-scale company.

We are growing 56% compounded week -over-week, and I have every expectation we'll do $10 million this year, $100 million next.

We are making something that people are already buying and getting it to them in a safer, more cost-effective way.

Comment · 1 month ago
The dosing starts out surprisingly simple. The magic is in the feedback loop: asking the patient how they're feeling, if they're getting the effects they want, and then having their doctor review and approve a new dose.

Point taken that RUO people are just yoloing this, I was one of them. Now, I can tell you that having a doctor in the loop with my health is very helpful.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah. Armbrust Inc. It's me.
Comment · 1 month ago
Building a startup, everything is important, but you do have to stack rank. This is getting to the point where it's probably the most important thing. And it won't take that long to fix.
Comment · 1 month ago
I will reach out. Thank you!
Comment · 1 month ago
We are co-manufacturing the API, and then we are bringing it in-house in the next 9 months.

The legal cutout that we have is on the personalization front, which is very well protected. The trick is that most compounders are not actually personalizing, and we are. Our feedback loop allows us to do real personalization on a week-by-week basis.

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