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Episode 172

From Family Business to Startup Success | Thyme Care Founder & CEO Robin Shah

Apr 21, 2025
39:10

Episode Description

Each year, 2 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer and face a fragmented, overwhelming healthcare system with minimal guidance between doctor visits, even as they make life-altering decisions.

In this episode, we talk with Robin Shah, Founder & CEO of Thyme Care, who has devoted his 17-year career to improving oncology care and is now building a virtual support system that has already helped over 50,000 cancer patients nationwide.

We cover:

🏥 Robin's origin story saving his father's oncology practice during the 2008 financial crisis

💊 How community oncology has consolidated from independent doctors to large corporations

🚀 Key insights from scaling Flatiron Health as employee #3 and co-founding One Oncology

📈 How value-based care is creating new opportunities in specialty care

🔮 The future of cancer care coordination beyond active treatment

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About our guest

Robin Shah is the Founder & CEO of Thyme Care, an oncology population management company providing virtual clinical support for cancer patients. His career in oncology began by helping his father's community practice survive both the Great Recession and aggressive competition from hospital systems. Robin was an early employee at Flatiron Health and a founding team member of One Oncology before launching Thyme Care, which now supports over 270,000 people across the country with a team of 400 employees.

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