Mend: Building a heartbreak app, with Elle Huerta

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We are joined today by Elle Huerta - founder and CEO of the app Mend - designed to help you heal from both break ups and work burnout.

Following a late night Google search after a particularly bad break up - she found herself wondering if there was a better way to help people go through the pain of break ups and heal faster. 

Elle left Google simply to explore some passions she had neglected. She started doing an apprenticeship at a bakery, she did some start up consultancy, all whilst building Mend as a newsletter. Mend is now the app to help you heal from break ups and burn out, and has since been featured in countless press from the New York Times to Vogue and has been featured in Apple’s App of the year. Elle has been mentored by Jessica Alba, and raised over 2 million dollars in venture capital.

We talk about letting go of achievement-based goals, how to build a successful app that isn’t addictive, her experience of raising venture capital, why break ups s and the life changing impact of a digital detox.

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