The Asia Tech Podcast welcomed Gabriel Henry Lopez, a co-Founder, and the Chief Technology Officer at MedHyve. MedHyve is an online medical marketplace that connects healthcare buyers directly with the biggest brands and medical suppliers.

Some of the topics that Gabriel discussed:

• Dropping out of a prestigious computer science program to build MedHyve
• Relentlessly convincing his parents that he simply had to do this
• How his co-Founder's previous experience in the healthcare field was helpful
• Getting comfortable with risk-taking and the inherent difficulties of entrepreneurship
• The impact of the pandemic on the growth of MedHyve
• Does his family really understand what he is doing and building?

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. It Came to a Point Where I Had to Make a Choice
2. I Was Running a Thesis 
3. We Had to Hire More Older-Looking People
4. It Was an Uphill Battle but We Were Able to Do It
5. I’m Making Real Jobs!

This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh.