Ask HN: Seeking co-founder for tobacco cessation

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10 years ago

Hi, I work in pharma and am looking to develop a tobacco cessation program as a personal project -- that is a program to help people to quit smoking. Today, the standard cessation programs have a 5% success rate, I am working on a program that studies show can have a 20% to 40% success rate.

My background is UC Berkeley bioengineer, MIT Sloan MBA. First engineer of biotech venture that raised over $50MM in VC funding. Many years of consumer product experiences at Samsung Innovations and Square, and recently in the healthcare and pharmaceuticals space. This is me -- www.linkedin.com/in/somid3

I am currently looking for 1-2 co-founders very passionate about tobacco cessation. If you're interested please email me at somid3 [--at--] gmail [..dot..] com -- A bit about the market: currently 16% of Americans smoke -- thats about 40MM people. Every year 400K smokers die due to smoking side-effects. 70% of smokers wish to quit, and 12% of all smokers actually try to quit each year. Walgreens, J&J, CVS, and many healthcare payers, large employers, and hospital systems have made smoke cessation one of their top of mind priorities..

Email me if interested.

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