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Tara Viswanathan

@taraviswanathan

Founder & CEO @Rupa_Health (šŸ’°exited in ā€˜24), prev @Stanford, @Wharton. TX raised, CA living 🤠🌊 sharing stuff I learn & want to remember šŸ™Œ

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Had someone ask me today how I could leave the healthcare industry after all the contacts and experience I got there. Simple — because I’m interested in other things. šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø Life’s too short to do keep doing something just bc you have experience in it.

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Our 3mo old son laughed for the first time yesterday, and it’s now my top life goal to make him laugh every day for the rest of his life.

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Accidentally wore my indoor shoes outside to get coffee because I was in a deep conversation with ChatGPT about how contact lenses work šŸ˜‚ā€¦..do I have to burn my shoes now?

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Every employee at an early stage startup should do this. Do the job. The title (and rewards) will follow. (From Barry Diller’s new memoir — it’s very good.)

Every employee at an early stage startup should do this.

Do the job. The title (and rewards) will follow.

(From Barry Diller’s new memoir — it’s very good.)
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I took our 3 mo old to my cousin’s graduation dinner with about 25 aunts / uncles / cousins I see maybe 1-2 times per year. I walked in and my aunt immediately grabbed the baby from my arms, put 5 overflowing plates of food in front of me, and ordered me to eat. ā€œYou sit down!

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After selling rupa, I made a rule to ā€œfollow curiosityā€. I only say yes to things where my gut screams YES — even if I don’t understand why in the moment. And the first thing I said yes to was Zoya. We met the day after I sent out my final investor update for Rupa. I had lunch

After selling rupa, I made a rule to ā€œfollow curiosityā€. I only say yes to things where my gut screams YES — even if I don’t understand why in the moment.

And the first thing I said yes to was Zoya.

We met the day after I sent out my final investor update for Rupa. I had lunch
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I’ve been thinking about how the longer something lasts, the more it seems to protect itself instead of doing the thing it was built to do. Not just companies, but systems of all kinds - especially the ones we count on to build the physical world: power plants, factories, and the

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At my cousin’s wedding. Groom started his vows with: ā€œNeha. As an AI language model I don’t understand how love feels…. Wait sorry wrong one.ā€ šŸ˜‚ too good

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Me: no one actually uses passwords like ā€œabc123ā€ right…??? Me finding my dad’s passwords in our shared family 1pass: šŸ’€šŸ˜­

Me: no one actually uses passwords like ā€œabc123ā€ right…???

Me finding my dad’s passwords in our shared family 1pass: 

šŸ’€šŸ˜­
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In a small countryside town in France for our cousin’s wedding, and our Moroccan uber driver knows more about life than most people I know. We drive past the largest McDonald’s I’ve ever seen. (it has its own massive garage that looks like a converted airplane hanger šŸ˜‚) He

In a small countryside town in France for our cousin’s wedding, and our Moroccan uber driver knows more about life than most people I know. 

We drive past the largest McDonald’s I’ve ever seen. (it has its own massive garage that looks like a converted airplane hanger šŸ˜‚) 
 
He
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This is a nothing burger. Labcorp and Quest can’t compete with Function Health and others. The issue is that labcorp and quest cannot officially price their direct cash pay publicly at the same price as they offer to function and others bc then they wouldn’t be able to bill insurance

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Highly recommend everyone in my generation read this. Especially Chapter IX: Socialism & History. (and Chapter X: Government & History)

Highly recommend everyone in my generation read this. 

Especially Chapter IX: Socialism & History. 

(and Chapter X: Government & History)
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Convinced that parent screen time is even worse than kid screen time bc it makes the kids feel like they’re unimportant. (i.e. parents paying attention to their phone when with the kid)