Aja Beckett
Founder & CEO, Shotsy. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Aja Beckett is an iOS engineer who created Shotsy, a tracking and companion app designed for patients using GLP-1 medications. Prior to founding Shotsy, she worked as an iOS engineer at The New York Times and co-founded comment moderation platform Civil.
1shows
1appearances
10statements
3resolved
2supported
1contradicted
67%fully supported
Everything Aja Beckett said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cultural bias prevents treating weight loss as a normal medical condition
“There's so much bias and judgment that this is not treated like a normal medical condition, I think, in a lot of channels.”
Legacy diet concepts will fail to resonate with GLP-1 app users
“When we see other apps that seem to be bringing a lot of those concepts into GLP-ONE tracking, I think that's just inherently not going to resonate as much with this community”
Integrating AI chatbots into health tracking apps is an uncompelling gimmick
“I know that we've seen some apps that have experimented with integrating like AI chatbots and AI companions. I don't find that particularly compelling. You know, I think if you want to talk to AI about it, you've got a lot of options for doing that. It doesn't…”
Shotsy hit one million downloads and 100,000 active paid subscribers
“We've had we've had over a million downloads. And we have at this point, I think a 100,000 active paid subscribers.”
Competing GLP-1 companion apps are pivoting to in-app drug marketplaces
“We've actually seen several of the several other apps in our space just recently start to add you know, kind of a marketplace for the drugs themselves within the app.”
Shotsy will maintain vendor independence from pharmacies and telehealth clinics
“My instinct from the beginning has been that there is a lot of value in us maintaining an independent position in the space, right? Like the word, you know, Shotzi is not tied to a particular medication, it's not tied to a particular clinic or pharmacy and it …”
Keeping a day job improves early-stage startup decision-making and creativity
“Things got so much easier once I did take a day job and start bringing in some regular income instead of trying to constantly you know, force my, you know, fledgling businesses to try to support me financially. I think that's something that would have made it …”
Shotsy hired a former FDA informatics chief scientist as its CSO
“We were very fortunate to bring on a chief science officer last year who was a former chief scientist at the FDA for informatics and spent, Has spent a lot of his career focused on health data privacy and you know, issues around regulation with apps like this.”
Shotsy will track non-weight GLP-1 outcomes like reduced smoking and alcohol
“We are, Also wanting to move into more support for people who might be taking a GLP-I for non-weight-related outcomes. You know, maybe they are you know, trying to reduce alcohol usage or cigarette usage.”
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 INNOVATORS & INVESTORSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Shotsy | 1 | 10 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Innovators & Investors → |