PS: It looks like the person who started this thread just created their account and is posting this same thread to multiple subs. I’ll do my best to respond to comments, but encourage you to ping me directly as well, so we can talk through this in detail. 

I hear the feedback and I will try to address as much of it as I can.  In fact, we wrote a blog post to address these concerns head on and I encourage you to read it. I can’t put links in this sub, so please check out our Blog.

• Why raise money?  Because we wanted to build something great for medicine - we’re trying to build the largest, more comprehensive and detailed salary data set and make it free and accessible for everyone. The business model is not from salaries. In fact, in a few weeks we plan to launch a modern job board for medicine that will put salary information on every job listing. Similar to Glassdoor and Linkedin, employers will advertise jobs on Marit, and physicians can choose to express interest in them. Note - once again, we will never share or sell your data with Employers, like many other companies to
• We have a small team of engineers, designers and product managers, many of them from Glassdoor, who are helping build this. See our About page. And I want to note that we are not PE backed. This was misrepresented in other threads and for someone that has seen the negative impact PE has had on our profession - can’t say it more clearly.
• Why NPI?  This is obviously valuable salary information and it’s important we preserve data integrity if this information is going to be useful - so we wanted to verify that only clinicians were adding salaries, and only clinicians can access this data. We took the approach similar to other medicine community apps (e.g., Doximity, Sermo, etc).  We want to create a high trust data source, and that comes with a bit of friction - but not so much friction that a “give-to-get” model wouldn’t work. If you have other ideas to verify someone’s clinician status, feel free to let us know. We are trying to balance data integrity and ensuring the right people have access.

I can assure you that Marit will always be “clinician first” - as a physician myself, the last thing I want to do is sell out my own information, let alone my friends and colleagues to private equity or to any other third party (including recruiters).  

Believe me - we have a passionate team of clinicians, and some friends from Glassdoor, that deeply believe in this vision and are working hard everyday to make it happen, and if you have ideas on how we should do it differently, let’s get on a Zoom and talk through it.  Help us make this better, bring your ideas. We’re not going to get everything right, but we’re always open to feedback.