Nasser.
Builder since age six.
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$14MIn sales from $0 in 22 months
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CombinatorY Combinator founder
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$150MStartup co-founder from scratch
Two obsessions.
Books and computers.
I grew up in Egypt. My first computer arrived when I was six, and from then on my family knew exactly what I would do with my life.
By the time I was a kid, I was fixing computers for friends and neighbors. I spent lunch money on books.
In high school, I invented a mathematical sequence formula. My teacher made the whole class applaud, and then said:
“This is PhD-level thinking.
You can’t use it on the test.”
Schools here test for memory, he explained, not intelligence. I understood the system that day. I also decided not to be shaped by it.
First year of computer science.
Correcting the professors’ code.
Then I built startups, and learned the hard way. Along the way I took a sales job to understand how things actually get sold.
Then came Odiggo.
An automotive marketplace. I grew it from nothing to real revenue, fast.
Y Combinator.
And a decision.
During YC we chose to leave the marketplace behind and move to the Bay Area. We wanted to build a trillion-dollar company, and there is one place on Earth where that happens.
I landed in SF expecting the future.
Autonomous cars. Robots everywhere. Then I walked into a hospital with my wife, and it felt like the 1980s.
Healthcare needed AI.
It was obvious.
I went back to my co-founder and said it plainly: hospitals are the opportunity. That conversation became a company.
Sully.ai
Co-founder and President. I built the product from scratch and ran sales, marketing, product, engineering, design, and recruiting.
