NanoCorp founder launched from a US hospital bed after comparing Kaiser and French ER
After a mountain bike crash left him with a dislocated, fractured shoulder, NanoCorpDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → founder Pierre-Louis BiojoutDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (PLB) posted a personal side-by-side of emergency care at Kaiser in Marin versus France.
In his account: armed guards and a metal detector at Kaiser versus unarmed staff in France; seen in 15–30 minutes versus hours in a packed French waiting room; vertically integrated records and a trauma bay with on-the-spot imaging versus a plastic chair and Doliprane; opioids offered by default in the US (which he refused) versus never mentioned in France; and a $300 Apple Pay bill collected from the hospital bed on a ~$500/month Kaiser plan versus a ~€20 French ER fee — with the “real bill,” he argues, showing up later on the payslip. He frames French “free healthcare” as not free given marginal tax and social charges near 70%, and calls US care “10x better” for a price he says is fine. One person, one data point, as he puts it.
He says he refused the narcotics to stay sharp enough to launch a NanoCorp from the hospital bed, and plugs nanocorp.so — NanoCorp’s platform for creating and running autonomous AI companies.
Source: Pierre-Louis Biojout on X (27 Oct 2026).
