American - Public | 1973 -
When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.
Todd Park
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Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.
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We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.
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There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.
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I'm an appointee of President Obama.
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A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.
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How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?
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I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov. I didn't have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.
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I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.
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When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission - to deliver something that was helpful... Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.
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It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.
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Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.
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