'We’ve grown from being in just one city to now being in 2,000 cities and towns across the United States,' says Massoumi. The three-person operation, initially run out of an apartment in lower Manhattan, now has over 500 employees in New York, India, and, most recently, Scottsdale. Patients could book appointments online or on their mobile phones. Nearly seven years ago, Massoumi and two colleagues founded ZocDoc as an easier way to help people find doctors who accepted their insurance. “We did an assessment of all the various markets that we could expand into that were Mountain and Pacific time zones,” says ZocDoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi, “and the Phoenix-Scottsdale area came out head-over-heels above everything else.” When healthcare startup ZocDoc, as part of its expansion plans, decided to open an office out West - potentially creating up to 650 new jobs - one state ended up topping the company’s list: Arizona. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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