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Rhythm | Senior Embedded/Firmware Engineer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE (Hybrid ok) | $180k–$250k + equity Rhythm is a medical device startup headed toward FDA clearance. We're hiring a …

Big big fan of LTSE; The core tension I point out is simply that the epistemic crux of TLS -- short term validation -- is a poor proxy for the core risks in frontier companies. The…

The lean startup methodology is fundamentally antithetical to companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Antares, etc. How do you resolve the difference between the short term nature of the…

Rhythm | Chicago / Remote (Ok for exceptional candidates) | Senior ML Engineer | Full-time We are a KP-backed startup that is solving sleep apnea for 1bn people. We are looking for…

Totally agree - most of these co's that get funded are pointless. FWIW, the general math here is that you'd spend We've strayed really far from where technical innovation began

RhythmPAP | Full stack hardware engineer | Full-Time | Chicago This is your chance to work on a product that will meaningfully improve 1 billion lives. Sleep Apnea is a terrible di…

UARS = upper airway resistance syndrome RERA = respiratory effort related arousal UARS is effectively a "cousin" of sleep apnea which tends to occur in younger and fitter people - …

Hello! I am one of three working on a new treatment for sensitive sleep apnea patients / UARS Patients. We'd love to hear about your experience with trad CPAP and OSA.

This Or "Learning Curve Pricing" which dominated the outcomes of early SV.

someone needs to bring up the indestructable Nokia

Check out the WatchPAT One - its a new at-home sleep test that is really simple and very non-invasive.

This just represents such a stark lack in originality and lends even more credo to "OpenAI wants to copy its customers"

Hopefully Martin Casado or one of the other awesome open source folks from a16z will take a look at this and make the person whole!

A somewhat niche but good book on sleep-disordered breathing is "Life Saving Sleep" by Barry Krakow [1]. If you have a ton of sleep problems, you should probably catalog them, and …

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is there anything that VCs will _not_ pontificate on?

Unfortunately, there is no textbook on something very particular like "The CPAP Market in the US" - which is what I want to understand currently. Also textbooks frequently miss out…

Looking for something where I can give it a topic or area of interest, and it does an extremely comprehensive deep dive. The ideal version would be that I can give it a topic and a…

I wanted to start a discussion around AI agents, where you see them being helpful and whether you're working on any. Didn't see much in search about this.