Massoumi and Rubin are no strangers to NYC Tech, serving as two of the most prolific founders in the ecosystem with Cyrus cofounding ZocDoc and Slava cofounding Indiegogo. In this first installment for 2019, in the hot seat are Cyrus Massoumi and Slava Rubin of humbition, the founder-focused NYC venture firm concentrated on deeply supporting early-stage operators. His most proud and humbling distinction to date is ZocDoc’s recognition as a Best Place to Work both in New York and Arizona.Welcome back to Inside the Mind of an NYC VC, a highly acclaimed series at AlleyWatch in which we speak with New York City-based Venture Capitalists. It was at Trilogy where Cyrus met – and shared a desk with – ZocDoc founder Nick Ganju.Ī native of Florida, Cyrus also worked at Disney World, where he gained firsthand insight into the importance of excellent customer service – a learning he later implemented at ZocDoc which is central to the company’s operation today.Ĭyrus currently resides in Manhattan.

During the prior year, he worked in Austin, Texas, for Trilogy Software, which recruited Cyrus upon his graduation, cum laude, from the Wharton School. In 1999, Cyrus founded his first business, a web startup specializing in e-commerce management tools. began soon after his 2003 graduation from Columbia Business School, where he earned an MBA and received the Heffernan Award for Outstanding Service. Cyrus’s four-year tenure at McKinsey & Co. where Cyrus first met and collaborated with ZocDoc founder and president Oliver Kharraz. Prior to ZocDoc, Cyrus served as an Engagement Manager at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he gained extensive experience in healthcare technology. After rupturing his eardrum in 2007 and spending four days searching for a doctor, he created ZocDoc to solve patient problems and improve the modern healthcare experience. Cyrus Massoumi is the Founder of ZocDoc and Managing Partner / Founder of humbition.

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