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Dental insurance for veterans was the fabs that make the LCD screens were running at negative % margin. There were multi billion dollar fines for price fixing. The CEOs were going to jails in California for the price fixing scandal. By the way I had nothing to do with it, I was a professor during that time. You couldn't hire a sales guy, you had to go to the DOJ website to find out if they were under indictment for price-fixing. And literally all of them were under indictment and so you had, it was awful. But Sergey Brin really liked what I was doing and hired the company. So I got to work for Sergey Brin at the end of it who was, Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google with Larry. So that was good. In the end, but it was five years, hell. - Well, what do you think that your biggest learning was from that experience then? What did you learn that maybe you applied in your next startup? It sounds like you-- - Closed the company earlier. (laughs) I didn't want to lose th...

Ameritas dental founded One Laptop Per Child, you actually were at the MIT Media Lab. Can you tell us a bit about what it was like to found One Laptop Per Child and how you were able to take that risk to leave MIT Media Lab and being a professor to start this company? - Well, the bigger risk was telling the CEO of Intel which is I had been at the previous year that the project they were spending, call it $ million dollars a year was never gonna work. 'Cause Intel only has what's called rail-to-rail processes and for this chip that we were making to be the best in the world, we needed graded levels of voltage, not just zero or high. And so that killed the project and then I thought I'd never do commercial work again and I applied to be a professor at MIT and got a call. And the founder had to stay two days to meet with the founder of Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte. And this sort of -minute meeting just for him to check off on me as a professor turned into a thre...

how to renegotiate Humana dental handshake at that point, because they're not gonna sign anything, we can get something out of it. And I had to figure that out to try to save the company. That was hard. I know all the bike paths in Taipei now. - So closing earlier, since we're here in Berkeley, we have a lot of students who want to do like social impact startups and ventures. Is there any other advice that you would give to them about starting a social impact venture? - Yeah, you probably have the idea how do you get the money. And I would say what I do is they think of this crazy fun idea of something I want to do, and I start telling everybody I'm gonna do it. And you have to be willing to have them think you're stark raving mad, you just have to be willing. Like everything I've ever done of any note, when I first voiced it, people thought I was stark raving. So if they think that, great, you're on the right track. They're even a little bit j...

I wanted to be at MIT as well Dental Insurance For Veterans But it's much more risky when you put all of your savings, you put your house up for mortgage, you take millions of dollars from your friends as I did at the end of cause I started this company called Pixel Qi where we were the, I mean I don't know if you remember Q but the sky really fell, it really fell. And in Q, on Sand Hill Road like there were free drinks in the fridge and the lights were on but there was no money going out of that. And I had just started this, I just created this billion dollar thing and I was commercializing a lot of that technology to get people, really low-power screens that were sunlight-readable, retinal resolution before Apple, didn't have retinal resolution that were in the lowest cost laptop ever made by far. They went into a $ laptop that we shipped that I designed and architected and shipped and delivered to high volume mass production. And so I got money but I had to t...

Humana dental being one of those three and it's providing great return for humanity. That's fantastic, if it can even just do X, X, X, that kind of thing, it's also awesome. Everybody focuses on the top ones but you can work in that structure in a VC structure. They might not fund you if they don't think you can be one of those three, but if you fall short as thousands do, you can still have an interesting business that delivers a lot of good for humanity. And they're really great with that actually. - That's really interesting. Thank you for sharing that. Okay, I think we want to move on a little bit to some of your experiences. You have had a lot of interesting experience. So for example, you were head of the display division at Google X which is Alphabet's kind of moonshot factory for developing innovative ideas such as the self-driving car for example. So can you tell us a bit about your experience at Google X and really how did innovatio...

intersection Renaissance dental laughed in my face just three months earlier and say, "Whoa, we could move a lot of product this way." And that design is really solid. The CTOs said they trusted it, yep, it'll work. So, you have to ear the negative feedback and just view it like a lawyer, like an engineer, just write it down, like it's just problem solving, simultaneous problem solving of all these things. And so that's what I would do is just tell everybody. And if it's really a fun crazy project if you tell people about it, kindred spirits, will be the path to your door 'cause they wanna work on it too and they're gonna be good at this other thing that you're not and then you can do it together and it's less lonely, somebody else can point out a thing. That's how I'd kinda do everything. You just start with this crazy idea but you have to be willing to let people laugh at you, it's okay, it's part of the proces...

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Ameritas dental so no savings yes savings can change from one location to the next depending on your zip code you may save a little more in one city and you may save a little more in another city so choosing the plan that's best for where you live as well as what procedures you may need to have taken care of now the advantages of dental savings plan you save up to sixty ten to sixty percent and I have some plans where you can save up to % so the plans vary the savings beery okay now once again you have access over a hundred thousand plus dentists you can use whenever needed here we go there are no maximum annual spending limits now with dental insurance you have a spending limit the highest the lowest end I've seen is a thousand to twelve hundred the high end is fifteen hundred the problem with that is if you are a person with poor oral hygiene and you know you have cavities not a cavity but cavities more than one more than two you know you may need a root canal...

a independent humana dental healthcare agent and I love love helping people get covered within to discount plans or get to insurance whichever you prefer I'm a little bit of background I always like to tell people that I have plus years in the dental industry or the healthcare industry and I'm very very passionate about helping people take care of their oral hygiene oral hygiene is so very very important to your overall health of the body so I'm making this because people have many questions in reference to what is an actual discount savings plan dental savings plan and I just want to sum it up for you and hopefully care I'm sorry clear up any misconceptions of what a discount savings plan actually is versus insurance now what happens when you join discount savings plan when you gain access to a network of dentists who have agreed to provide discount rates forget plan members so you play a discounted rate directly to the dentist after receiving dental care s...

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humana dental insurance you get so if there's particular codes or details that you need you know there's a good chance you're not going to find it in an eligibility program and eligibility program is not going to tell you . how many quads a route plane you can do the same day without being penalized it's not going to take they downgrade on post you're composites or if they cover cancer screening you know a lot of times night guards isn't going to be in there you know there's just too much that people need that you're not going to find in an eligibility program and to me what you get in the eligibility program is just it's comparable to a fax back it's it's really really not much different you know some carriers give more than others you know generally eligibility programs are going to merge with the most popular practice management systems out there which is a need advantage so you know if you have dentex or softn or Egosoft or open ...

that have opted in language for carriers that they have a shared network Tooth pain relationship with they're almost all going to say that you have to specifically opt out it's not uncommon for practices that thought they signed up with just a couple of carriers to all of a sudden find themselves a PPO contract provider for ten or twelve or more you know that they never meant to sign up for so it's really important to read your PPO carrier contracts for fine print details the the American Dental Association can even help with that they they can they're not you know they're they don't have an attorney that's going to look at the PPO contract but they can look at that contract and kind of give you some tips and advice about the language in it without con the carrier you know it's kind of hard to tell ahead of time what PPO network is going to be used in order and you know this is needed in order to project write offs and know what the correct ...

Ameritas Dental going to know ore about insurance details coverage limits than any other employer groups and the employer assumes all risk on utilization on a self-insured group and they're also not going to. Be subject to state legislation and the plan does not have to be approved by the State Board of Insurance and another type of employer is a self-funded group it's a little different than self-insured self-funded group they actually hire a third Party administrator to provide customer service and process claims for them but it's actually still the employers money that pays out on the claims so the HR and the benefits department of a self-funded employer will usually know their Plan fairly well self-funded employers also send the risk since again it's coming from their funds these employers can assist or intervene on claim disputes and instruct the third party administrator to pay a claim if inaccurate information was Provided and you can get the HR on your...

I think that's the key is that you hire and and then people aren't dental insurance no waiting period espousing those values they're like they're not acting kind guess what and you talk to them they still can't seem back trying to other folks they're out of the company so you have to get and keep people that a spouse spouse your mission and your values and you have to work really hard to find ways to keep that culture because I think that culture is critical to this success your company more than anything else you can do well I appreciate this perspective both of you because it's going to help all of us me all of us listening just to think about deeply disruption think about the industry and I want to leave it with each of you you know where should people go to find you guys if they want to work with you guys if they want to partner with you guys where should they go to find you and we'll start with Jeff and then Alex and go from there well s...