Kola Tytler

I’m a 32-year-old London-based medical doctor (GP), sneakerhead and entrepreneur.

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I studied medicine at King’s College London (GKT), and have completed a Master of Business Administration with Merit at the University of Birmingham and a Master of Studies in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge (King’s College).

I’m currently studying for an MSc in Medical Education at the University of Oxford. I have also completed short courses in law and business at the London School of Economics and Imperial College London.

Current and previous ventures

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Alongside practising medicine, I’m building iatroX, a platform that brings together clinical reference tools, medical education and AI.

Clinicians can explore guideline-based answers and medicine guides, practise with medical question banks, and work through clinical CPD topics.

The platform also supports tutoring, reflection and personal CPD records, connecting everyday clinical questions with further learning.

iatroX

Previously, by combining maths, sneakers and statistics, in 2016 I founded HypeAnalyzer. Within this tool, me and a friend (Stefano) used available objective data to analyze trends in the resale market of brands such as Nike, Adidas, Jordan and Supreme. We used the data to create predictive pricing models and a scoring system which would allow products to be comparable. I later used the tool to invest in sneakers, eventually cashing out to finance the biggest share of dropout.

My life has not been all roses and flowers: after several botched exams, in 2018 I discovered to suffer from dyslexia and dyspraxia. With the right support I was soon able to get back on track with my studies, eventually qualifying as a medical doctor and taking up work in the NHS. Some time after graduating, I took two monitored IQ tests that got me a Mensa membership (scoring top 1% in the population in both the Cattell II and the Culture fair tests). I remain a Mensa member to this date (membership number 962112, UK Mensa), albeit I am yet to find a good use for this “special club”…

My frustration with my studies is partly the reason for the business being called dropout, together with it being a shoutout to Kanye’s College Dropout album.

In 2023 I was recognised by Forbes as an influential individual in the yearly 30 under 30 list for the Europe retail & ecommerce category. In 2024 I was recognised by the Italian edition of the same magazine in the yearly 100 under 30 list, again in the retail & ecommerce category.

HypeAnalyzer

dropout pricing and marketing was largely dictated by HypeAnalyzer‘s algorithms. Output of these include data for pricing, consignment rates (dynamic) and discounts. This model, simple yet efficient, can be scaled and reproduced for many other things retail and e-commerce. dropout was sold to a Swiss-based firm in early 2025.

Behind YEEZY Mafia

Between 2015 and 2018, I was one of 2 masterminds behind YEEZY Mafia, media outlet surrounding the sneakers released by Kanye West which now features millions of followers and is the worldwide reference for all things YEEZY.

Talks and public speaking

At TEDxCambridge University in June 2026, I gave “Real Patients Don’t Arrive With the Chapter Attached”, a talk about medical education and the need to reason beyond memorised answers.

I also addressed the Cambridge Union in October 2025. Watch my Cambridge Union address on the Union’s official channel.

You can also find me on Substack, with room for the ideas and experiences that connect medicine, business, technology, culture and life beyond work.

Get in touch

Please feel free to read more about me via the below links and press coverage.

My Instagram handle is @kolatytler
You can reach out via hello@kolatytler.com and on LinkedIn for general networking.

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