redlollipop

Loads for me, try again?

YC is not very good at evaluating medical companies. Its track record is not great.

Interesting post! Curious about two statements made in your post:

"Our proprietary methodology and results have been officially reviewed and approved by clinical Alzheimer’s experts at Stanford..."

What is an "official review and approval" process?

"The most challenging part of our journey so far has been to get access to the largest MRI databases for Alzheimer’s disease..."

Which dataset is this?

I'm not sure how Instacart plans to retain quality shoppers and couriers after this type of dramatic pay-cut.

Doesn't seem so.

What was this? It's disabled now.

This article is long, boring, poorly-edited, and has a great title.

What is the pay?

You really don't get much PR just by YC-association; you still have to pay for the PR you do get.

I wonder how this compares with whatever fashion photographers charge? What a narcissistic way to spend $150k.

There are many reasons for why the "outcomes have not been very useful," so there's not much point in speculating. Suffice it to say if patents have been filed in the past (i.e. some number of people thought their research was worth protecting) and researchers at a given institution are still allowed to file patents on their work, it makes no sense to take away the supporting resources that the institution is supposed to provide to help in filing patents.

"Donald Knuth, a computer scientist, refuses to use e-mail on the ground that his job is to be “on the bottom of things” rather than “on top of things”.