Lotus AI CEO: KJ Dhaliwal
Show notes
KJ Dhaliwal raised $41M to build Lotus, an AI doctor backed by Kleiner Perkins and CRV.
He joins Kyriakos Eleftheriou, CEO of Terra API, to discuss why San Francisco still wins,” why Lotus doesn’t bill insurance, and what doctors will actually do in five years.
His prediction: doctors become the backup, and not using AI could eventually become medical malpractice.
00:00 Pizza, Sneakers and Options Trading
04:33 Why San Francisco Still Wins
15:14 Building Dil Mil Where Tinder Fell Short
22:25 Raising $41M for Lotus
27:17 No Insurance. Straight to the Patient.
32:36 “Healthcare Investors Are the Worst”
38:19 Could Avoiding AI Become Malpractice?
41:20 How Often Doctors Reject the AI
46:09 Medical Benchmarks Miss the Real World
52:15 What If the Doctor Is Wrong?
57:02 Doctors Become the Backup
1:00:10 Why OpenAI Won’t Run a Medical Practice