Othman Laraki (Color) - It’s All About Access

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Othman Laraki is the co-founder and CEO of Color, a distributed healthcare and clinical testing company. From population genomics programs to high-throughput COVID-19 testing, Color provides the technology and infrastructure to power large-scale health initiatives. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Toby Corey, Laraki discusses the genesis of Color, the immense challenges and opportunities in the healthcare sector, and Color’s race into COVID testing when the pandemic hit.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.
0:13.0	We are delighted to welcome an amazing speaker,
0:18.0	Offman Lerocki, to E.T.L.
0:20.0	His story is so epic, his journey so incredible.
0:23.4	This is going to be a fantastic interview. So quick intro on Offman. He is the co-founder and
0:28.4	CEO of Color, a distributed health care and clinical testing company, from population genomics
0:35.1	programs to high-through throughput COVID-19 testing,
0:38.2	color provides the technology and infrastructure to power large-scale health initiatives.
0:43.7	Now, early in his career, Hoffman spent several formative years at Google,
0:48.5	where I worked on a performance infrastructure and client-side software.
0:52.4	After leaving Google, he co-founded Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter in 2008.
0:59.0	And at Twitter, Offman was the vice president of product helping create the company's first revenue products and grew the user base from 50 to 200 million users.
1:10.0	Offman holds a master's degrees in computer science and management science. the user base from 50 to 200 million users.
1:15.7	Offman holds a master's degrees in computer science and management science and engineering from Stanford University.
1:17.5	He has an MBA from MIT.
1:20.1	He's a longtime investor and advisor to leading companies such as Pinterest, Angelus, Slack,
1:27.3	Instacart, and others. And, man, I don't know what
1:31.1	he hasn't done. Welcome. Often, welcome to the show. Well, thank you for having me. I'm delighted
1:35.1	to be here today. Yeah, fantastic. Well, we have a lot to cover. So let me just dive right into this.
1:39.9	We caught up before this conversation. and you told a really interesting story about
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