Every contract that flows through our platform makes our benchmarks smarter. We get better at negotiating every day because our data grows every day.
We partner with every major cancer center in the US. Over 50% of oncologists in America use Tempus. When you have that kind of adoption, the data flywheel becomes unstoppable — more data, better insights, more adoption.
Every endpoint is a sensor. Every sensor feeds the threat graph. The more customers we have, the smarter we get. That is a moat no one can buy.
Every organism we engineer adds to our codebase. The platform gets better with every project.
Network effects are the most powerful force in technology. Every investment we make at USV starts with that question.
Network effects are the most powerful force in business. Find the category where they apply and build before anyone believes it matters.
At LinkedIn and Facebook, I saw what happens when a product hits network effects. As a VC, I’m looking for that same moment.
The atomic network is the minimum viable community that makes a product useful. Find it and you’ve found the key to everything.
The hardest part of any marketplace is getting to critical mass. After that, the network effects do the work for you.
The Cold Start Problem is the single hardest challenge for any network-effect business. Solve it and you’re unstoppable. Fail and you’re nothing.