{"id":188632,"date":"2026-02-18T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/former-doctor-quit-his-job-to-create-an-ai-tool-and-his-company-is-now-worth-465m-what-aspiring-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-his-experience\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:50:11","slug":"former-doctor-quit-his-job-to-create-an-ai-tool-and-his-company-is-now-worth-465m-what-aspiring-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-his-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/former-doctor-quit-his-job-to-create-an-ai-tool-and-his-company-is-now-worth-465m-what-aspiring-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-his-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Former doctor quit his job to create an AI tool, and his company is now worth $465M. What aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from his experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/finance\/former-doctor-quit-job-create-123000366.html\">Former doctor quit his job to create an AI tool, and his company is now worth $465M. What aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from his experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/finance\/former-doctor-quit-job-create-123000366.html\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/finance\/former-doctor-quit-job-create-123000366.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 11:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Kelly, a successful family doctor, made a bold career move in 2021 by quitting his stable practice to pursue a career in artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>Kelly&#8217;s AI-based company, Heidi, specializes in an AI scribe that helps medical providers manage their workload more efficiently, addressing the time constraints he faced in his own practice. <\/li>\n<li>Kelly&#8217;s decision to leave his lucrative medical practice was driven by a combination of passion for AI, math, and computer science, as well as previous experience in developing AI systems.<\/li>\n<li>Heidi&#8217;s success, with a valuation of $465 million, demonstrates the potential of entrepreneurial ventures in the tech industry, particularly in AI.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the allure of AI entrepreneurship, statistics reveal that most new businesses, especially in AI, fail within a few years, leading to increased stress and financial hardships rather than the hoped-for independence.<\/li>\n<li>For professionals considering a similar career shift, this underscores the importance of having transferable skills and the realization that high-risk, high-reward paths like entrepreneurship are not easily replicable.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of entrepreneurship, the article suggests that exploring side projects, advisory roles, or part-time ventures can be safer routes to new income streams while preserving a stable income. <\/li>\n<li>Setting clear reassessment points and understanding the financial and personal costs are vital in planning any significant career transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former doctor quit his job to create an AI tool, and his company is now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/aolfp\/images\/og-image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-188632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188634,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188632\/revisions\/188634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}