He Lost His Brother To A Misdiagnosis. Then He Built Medome (Dr. Steven Charlap)

We Built It Because We Had To - Tech Founder Backstories · Aug 6, 2026 · 36m

Misdiagnosis kills roughly 400,000 people a year in the US — and when Dr. Steven Charlap tried to fix it, doctors told him they'd rather not know.

In this episode, Jonathan W. Buckley is joined by Dr. Steven Charlap, MD, MBA and founder of Medome, an AI-first primary care platform. Steven had already sold one company and retired when his older brother, a cardiologist, was misdiagnosed and lost his life. That loss, followed by a second misdiagnosis that took his wife's best friend and a third that nearly took his own life, sent him back to school for five and a half years at Stanford and…