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Emily Casey
Director & Head of Community at What The Health
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About
Emily Casey is the Director & Head of Community at What The Health, where she has spent five years building a global audience around health innovation through editorial, events and community.
On the podcast, she speaks with the people shaping health and cuts through what is happening beyond the headlines, what is worth paying attention to and why it matters.
Career
- Now Director at What the Health & Head of Community · Tenmile
- Earlier Employee #1 (investments, community & operations) · Side Stage Ventures
- Earlier Community Manager · Stone & Chalk
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Key moments
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- 0:32 Meet Emily Casey
- 1:05 Emily's Current Work in Health Tech
- 1:18 Emily's Early Interest in Business
- 2:34 Decision to Pursue Medicine
- 3:39 Returning to Business and Startups
- 4:40 Exploring Startups and Internships
- 7:01 Joining She Starts Accelerator
- 9:00 Preconceptions vs. Reality of Being a Startup Founder
- 10:53 Gaps in the Startup Ecosystem
- 12:54 The Gender Funding Gap
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