Decent September update

Nick Soman
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

We are tracking for 2019 launch (!), writing our white paper, and hiring.

We have a path to market next year: on or after April 1st in Austin, Texas.

  • The association health plan regulations finalized in June will give us unprecedented abilities to target freelancers to start, and eventually to sell insurance across state lines. They also dictate that new self-insured AHPs can’t launch before April 2019.
  • Texas is a strong launch market for Decent. Many skilled freelancers, a tech epicenter in Austin, favorable regulations, and clout with other states when it’s time to expand.

We’re writing our white paper, telling our story, and building connections for future funding and expansion.

  • White paper narrative is drafted, and we’re going deep now on the tech sections: privacy (including HIPAA), security, technical protocol development, and token economics.
  • Mike and Molly and I did a 2 hour webinar for >50 healthcare attendees yesterday with our friend Heather Flannery, new global lead of Consensys Health. Decent will also be a founding member of Heather’s new trade association Blockchain in Healthcare Global, and we look forward to more collaborations to come. The webinar went quite well —check out the exit poll for attendees below.
  • After Molly presented Decent at Health Further in Nashville, the conference organizer nominated her as “blockchain explainer-in-chief.”

We’re making key hires.

  • We hired Ryan Scott as our Operations Lead. Ryan was referred by Molly, who worked with him at Cambia Health Solutions. He got into health insurance by way of engineering, has driven over $20MM in savings from operational improvements, and shined among backchannel references, who called him “top 10% [I’ve] worked with” … “thoughtful, determined and absolutely genuine” … “good and sharp” … “humble [and] eager to learn.”

We are hiring for key roles (we have pipelines for each of these, but we’re picky, and additional qualified candidates are always welcome).

How you can help 🙏

  • Stop and think for 30 seconds. Share this post with a great engineer you know, or comment with a few sentences on the best outside-the-box strategy you’ve seen to hire top engineers.
  • If you couldn’t think of anyone or anything but still want to help, please tweet something like this. :)
  • Use the “Read more about X” links under the profiles on our About Us page to get to know our team in their own words.
  • Please refer top candidates for key roles above.

Thanks for reading,

Nick and the Decent team

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