Sandy Jen

Co-Founder and CTO, Honor Technology · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sandy Jen co-founded the web-based instant messaging service Meebo in 2005, serving as CTO until its 2012 acquisition by Google. In 2014, she co-founded Honor, leading engineering and technology development to support professional caregivers and modernize in-home senior care.

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Jen: Honor will avoid invasive monitoring in favor of subtle senior tech

“Our strategy is to create something that's not really invasive, but very subtle. They can choose to use it, they can choose not to use it”

Sandy Jen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:56 a16z Podcast | Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology

Opinion

Jen: Senior care and aging are taboo topics largely ignored by society

“We don't talk about senior care much in society. We don't, it's generally a very taboo subject. We don't talk about death. We don't talk about things like, oh, you know, my mother can't go to the bathroom by herself anymore. And these are issues that, you know…”

Sandy Jen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:34 a16z Podcast | Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology

Insight

Jen: Care platforms must become domain experts on behalf of families

“You're expected, and part of the panic is that you're expected to become a knowledge expert instantaneously when you have no idea what's going on. And so part of our goal is to have Honor be that knowledge expert so that we're taking all of that burden away fr…”

Sandy Jen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:25 a16z Podcast | Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology	Jan 2, 2019	5m

Sandy Jen

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