
Maxim Saksonov is a diagnostic and interventional radiologist with more than fifteen years of clinical experience spanning residency, fellowship, and senior attending roles, including service as chief of an interventional radiology division. Trained in both diagnostic and procedural medicine, he has worked at the intersection of imaging, intervention, and clinical operations throughout his career.
He also holds an MBA, earned alongside the demands of clinical practice and department leadership. What began as an effort to better understand the business side of medicine ultimately led him into entrepreneurship. Dr. Saksonov is now the chief executive officer and cofounder of WillyAI, an early-stage platform for personalized ambient medical documentation that is currently deployed across medical institutions in multiple countries.
He shares professional updates on LinkedIn.
Intro
This is not a story of a 28-year-old successful serial entrepreneur, nor a work of personal development literature. It is rather an auto-dissection of a very regular and tired doctor who was arrogant enough to co-found a medical startup and become its chief executive officer (CEO) without having any qualifications for it whatsoever.
It is also not a story of great success (yet) merely because the journey is in its diapers …
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Pathogenesis of a medical startup: a physician’s diary of daring, doubting, and doing it anyway