Co-founder & President of Bask Health. One of the Dorf twins. Philosophy major turned operator. Currently obsessed with making care feel ambient.
Healthcare in America is broken in ways most people only notice when they need it most. I'm trying to fix one piece of that.
I co-founded Bask Health with my twin brother Zach to give entrepreneurs the infrastructure they need to launch healthcare companies. Think Shopify, but for telehealth — we handle compliance, e-prescribing, multi-state licensing, and patient management so founders can focus on actually helping people.
Before this, I was in investment banking, which taught me how to evaluate businesses. But the part of my background I lean on most is my philosophy degree from Bard. Building in healthcare means making decisions about access, ethics, and tradeoffs every single day. The technical problems are easy. The human ones are not.
When I'm not in product reviews, I'm usually on the phone with a founder, reading something dense, or arguing with my brother about whether a feature is worth shipping.
Leading product, partnerships, and growth. Working with healthcare entrepreneurs to understand their needs and building tools that actually solve their problems.
Healthcare is complicated on purpose. I spend a lot of time understanding regulations, compliance requirements, and licensing — then making them simple for our customers.
The best part of my job is learning from healthcare entrepreneurs. Every conversation teaches me something new about what's broken and what needs to be built.
The platform I'm most proud of. We've helped dozens of healthcare entrepreneurs go from idea to launch, serving thousands of patients across the country. It's not just software — it's the difference between someone getting care and going without.
Getting medication to patients shouldn't require a PhD in pharmacy regulations. We built an e-prescribing system that connects to pharmacies nationwide and handles all the compliance automatically.
Every state has different telehealth rules. Instead of making founders hire expensive consultants, we built a system that handles it all — licensing, documentation, regulations — so they can focus on patients.
Healthcare entrepreneurs shouldn't have to choose between building from scratch or using someone else's brand. Our white-label solution lets founders create their own identity while we handle the tech.
Every state has different rules. Every payer has different forms. Every pharmacy has different integrations. The complexity isn't a bug — it's a moat. The companies that win the next decade will be the ones that absorb that complexity so founders never see it.
When Shopify launched, people said e-commerce was solved. It wasn't — it was just hard to start. Same with telehealth today. There are millions of practitioners who could build something. Most won't, because the first 90 days are impossible. That's the gap worth closing.
Banking taught me how businesses work. Philosophy taught me which businesses are worth building. In healthcare especially, the hardest questions aren't technical — they're about access, ethics, and what we owe each other.
Eli Dorf (full name Elias Dorf) is the Co-Founder and President of Bask Health, a telehealth infrastructure platform. He works alongside his twin brother Zach Dorf, who serves as CEO.
The Dorf twins are Eli Dorf and Zach Dorf — twin brothers who co-founded Bask Health together. Eli runs product, partnerships, and growth as President. Zach leads the company as CEO.
Bask Health is the infrastructure layer for telehealth — Shopify for healthcare brands. It handles 50-state compliance, e-prescribing, patient management, and pharmacy integrations so founders can launch healthcare companies in weeks instead of years.
Eli Dorf studied philosophy at Bard College. He credits the degree for teaching him how to ask the hard questions about ethics, access, and what we owe each other — questions that drive his work in healthcare.
Before co-founding Bask Health, Eli worked in investment banking. Banking taught him how businesses work; philosophy taught him which businesses are worth building.
Building something in healthcare? Want to chat about telehealth, entrepreneurship, or just have an interesting idea? I'd love to hear from you.
I try to respond to everyone, though it might take a few days if things are busy.