Truemed

Over 40% of American adults are obese, and it's literally killing us.

It's difficult & expensive to live a healthy lifestyle in the US. We should make it easy & cheap.

Truemed reduces the friction to spend HSA & FSA funds on healthy food & exercise. There is more than $100 billion in these funds.

I love the mission of this company -- I was a tiny angel investor in 2022, but I just joined the founders full-time as their CTO (March 2023). I care a lot about payment incentives & fitness, so this is probably the best company in the world for me to work at.

Even if this fails (it won't), it will have been worth it to try.

Progress

June 2026 — Farewell

We built a great company; I'm leaving after ~3.5 years to spend more time with my kids and do more open-ended exploration. We already accelerated the rate of investment into root-cause lifestyle interventions and partnered with (and drove significant growth for) all of my favorite fitness brands. The company is just getting started, and has 70+ people (and is still growing).

I've always taken it as a given that I'll outwork everyone around me, but now that I have a 6, 4, and 2 year old, I can't consistently deliver 80 hour weeks like I used to, and my desire to explore new ideas is stronger than ever.

Feb 2025 — Going very well

Wow, this is going very well. We're materially altering the healthcare landscape in the US.

I've been able to hire the kindest, brightest people from my past 3 or 4 jobs to join us and build an amazing company. I should write more about this specifically, it is once-in-a-lifetime good.