Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!
Have you just "ordered the cancer vaccine" or this is not yet that easy?
Not that easy but started Echo to make it easier https://www.echoimmune.com/
Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
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#172This is wonderful but I feel bad for all the people who doesnt have the resources to go through the same. For 99.9% of the population, a diagnostic like his means a really different outcome. I know he is trying to fix this with his investments and companies, but sharing this story could be seen as "boasting"... "I went through this and I survived, while your loved ones wouldn't"
I agree. It would've been so easy to address that too. Just acknowledge it and be vocal about supporting policies that make it better for others.
Oh c'mon. Here's what Sid's done to help others in the process
* Started 10 companies to enable access to others * Detailed policy proposals to make this easier process for others * Open sourced the entire process and all of the associated data (25TB)
and probably other things I missed.
But nah, what would reaaally help is an acknowledgement.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly hospitals are in the business of minimizing liability while patients would prefer maximum survivability. Those are very different goals.
I assume you have been signing legal waivers left right and centre to be able to go through these unique treatments.
There are lots of waivers but the law prevents you from signing away liability for treatment.
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#175I’m grateful to Sid for what he’s doing—his companies are helping me battle my cancer. I hope more tech entrepreneurs will tackle healthcare and medicine like he is.
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#176This is the most supremely motivating post I've seen in a long time. I know what it is to be diagnosed with cancer, being rushed to surgery - it's amazing how quickly the medical-industrial complex can move once you've got a diagnosis (at least in Australia). I had a short period of contemplating terminally, because cancer claimed the life of most of my family. Thankfully, after surgery it was gone. To see Sid use hi…
I am watching DTF St. Louis (which is not a terrible reality show about a third tier city like the title implies, actually a Jason Bateman kind of dark comedy/whodunit), and Peyronie's features in the story. The show also has the first commercials I've ever seen for a Peyronie's treatment, and apparently it's an official ad partner of the show. I wonder if some enterprising show exec decided to go pitch the perfect s…
DTF STL is a fantastic show as are all of the series done by Steven Conrad.
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#177This story and the guy curing his dogs cancer leads me to believe what's missing is a jurisdiction that allows people with money to do whatever experiments they want/need to move medicine forward.
Paolo Cortazar, is that you?
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#178I think you’d find Dr. Richard Scolyer’s story really relatable. He’s an Australian cancer expert who, along with his colleague, is using himself as "patient zero" for a world-first treatment for his own brain cancer. They’re basically doing the research and the treatment in parallel to find a new way forward: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/dr-richard-scolyer-sp...
I found his story to give my mom hope when her cancer had metastasized to her brain in 2025.
Cancer cells in the brain are in a nutrition rich environment for growth and at the same time dangerous for treatment for removal and to prevent growth. The expected 5 year life expectancy is less than 5%.
Dr. Richard Scolyer had been diagnosed at 2023 and is still with us today. I hope he succeeds in his work.
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#179Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!
Your cancel journey is incredibly inspirational and I will share it on.
But actually, I'm writing to tell you that many of the OTHER things you have done have had a huge positive impact. Gitlab foundation, for example, has been extraordinarily impactful on our organization and many others.
This is the way!
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#180Sounds like some lame ass tech founder bullshit if I’ll be honest. If I had cancer the last think I’d be thinking would be to make a slide deck about it. Can these robot people come back down to earth and have a genuine human experience for a chance? Not everything has to be framed in the view of a startup company or a data analysis exercise. Maybe focus on spending time with your family and friends? If they still li…
If you can cure a cancer by framing it as a data analysis exercise that doesn't seem to be a bad thing.