"We haven't yet really figured out how to pay for AI in healthcare," says Tempus AI CEO Dr. Eric Lefkofsky, a challenge that led to the birth of Tempus, a company that’s impossible to ignore
Lefkofsky’s approach to business is as unconventional as it is relentless. Born in West Bloomfield, Michigan, the youngest of three siblings all University of Michigan graduates, he discovered early on that he had a knack for commerce. As a college freshman, he was already selling carpets to peers and earning $100,000 a year, a success he detailed in a 2012 blog post. “I have never been afraid to act. It is one of my greatest strengths in business. When I have an idea or reach a conclusion, I act on it, immediately and without reservation,” he wrote, a sentiment that would come to define his
Tempus CEO Eric Lefkofsky Says ‘This Could Be as Big as Apple’ in Healthcare AI
- By Anshika Mathews
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There was never a moment in any company I was ever at where I’m like, this could be as big as Apple.
