"Businesses are best when there is some personal motivation, when you are trying to solve a problem that is personal to you."
- Eric Lefkofsky
Eric Lefkofsky
Eric Lefkofsky is the founder and CEO of Tempus, a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is a founding partner of Lightbank, a venture fund investing in disruptive technologies. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), a global e-commerce marketplace, and co-founder of Mediaocean, a leading provider of integrated media procurement technology; Echo Global Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO), a technology-enabled transportation and logistics outsourcing firm and InnerWorkings (NASDAQ: INWK), a global provider of managed print and promotional solutions.
Meet Olivia
FEATURED BLOG POST
September 11, 2024
My motivation in starting Tempus back in 2015 was personal. I set out to build a solution that could keep any one person with cancer alive. At the time, I thought that person might need to be my wife.
It ended up being a 19-year-old friend of my daughter’s named Olivia.
My...
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The Middle
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July 19, 2024
I've dreaded writing this post for a while, so please bear with me. As a CEO, I firmly believe business leaders should try to avoid taking a stand on political issues. Companies are a collective of different ideas and ideologies, and the last thing I want to do is espouse...
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Thoughts on Generative AI
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June 1, 2023
I've been building tech companies for the past 25 years and I have yet to see anything like what has occurred over the past few months with generative AI, and that means a lot given that I’ve seen the birth of the Internet and the smartphone.
Arguably, there has...
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