Is There a Level of Authenticity Within City Block?

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Dr. Toyan Ajayi is the CEO of City Block, a start-up that aims to help marginalized people through education and employment. The company has raised more than $30 million in venture capital so far this year. Dr. Logan: Is there anything you've learned about setting an example for other CEOs? Mr. Ajayi: It's taken me a long time to get to a place where I'm just comfortable being me and showing up as I show up.

In the 53rd episode of the Logan Bartlett show, we’re joined by Dr. Toyin Ajayi, co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, and discuss the state of the U.S. healthcare system, out-of-control medical costs, transitioning to CEO, and diverse hiring in the workplace.

(0:00) Intro

(1:35) Welcome Dr. Toyin Ajayi

(2:53) What is Cityblock?

(10:48) Medicaid and the business model

(15:32) Taking on the most expensive part of the population

(22:05) Why for-profit

(28:41) Working with a broken healthcare system

(38:00) Arguments for democratizing healthcare

(42:03) Dr. Toyin Ajayi’s background

(47:04) Working on HIV/AIDS prevention

(51:56) Building a non-profit

(1:02:57) Having a co-founder step back

(1:05:50) Diverse hiring

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.