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“You have to burn down the boats” – an interview with Virta and Trulia founder, Sami Inkinen

A Healthy Dose

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Spark: going into healthcare

This is the story of how the speaker fell in love with the idea of starting a company to cure the diabetes epidemic. Despite being pre-diabetic themselves, they were determined to find a solution. After discovering a group of scientists and clinicians who said there was a way to reverse the disease, the speaker knew they had to take action. They realized they couldn't keep this secret to themselves and tried to find others to do the work, but people thought they were crazy. This is the beginning of their journey to fix a problem that affects more people in America than traffic accidents.

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