Driven & Co.
Reaching for the Stars: One Entrepreneur's Quest to Stop the Spread of Illness
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:38:30
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Synopsis
On the latest episode of Driven: How Did I Get Here?, host Justin Gray welcomes Inder Singh, Founder and CEO of Kinsa. Justin gets the scoop on Inder's quest to become an astronaut, his work at the Clinton Health Access Initiative and his mission as an entrepreneur to help track and stop the spread of illness. Can you give us a background on Kinsa? I started the organization five years ago with a mission to create a real-time map of human health to help track and thereby curb the spread of disease. I'm a big believer that the biggest problem in health care globally, that we have a shot at addressing in our lifetime, is curbing the spread of infectious illness, whether that is the Flu or Ebola or Zika or AIDS, TB, Malaria, or food-borne illness, or pneumonia. At its core, Kinsa is an information gathering system. We try to understand where and when illness is spreading. To do that, we re-imagine the very first product that a person turns to when they fall ill - the thermometer. Our product doesn't just give yo