Not admitted · Vague or promotional
Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 12 Sep 2024 · owen-1224
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Vague or promotional
“Now we are at 25 companies founded or hiring CMOs from 25 physicians. 90% of startups fail: that is 2.5 physicians left winning the race to become a billion dollar company (at a minimum).”
End of the illustrative funnel: from 56,536 US psychiatrists, through TMS and ketamine practitioners, research authorship, in-network status, retirement, Y Combinator acceptance and startup failure rates, the author estimates that roughly 2.5 physician-led companies could become billion-dollar companies. He states up front that the math is not serious and he is making a point.
No entity, observable event, benchmark or threshold can be written from the text and its immediate context. Slogans ('game changer', 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity', 'favourite stock') and quantifiers with no countable set ('more', 'first', 'all') without a defined set.