Mark Atlan

Founder & CEO, ZappCare · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mark Atlan is an Indigenous entrepreneur who founded ZappCare to bring telehealth, mobile medical clinics, and drone deliveries to underserved tribal communities. Prior to ZappCare, he managed portfolios for ultra-high-net-worth clients at Merrill Lynch and established the Mark Atlan Foundation to promote financial literacy across tribal nations.

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2 supported 3 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mark argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Atlan: Navajo law mandates the Nation prioritize Native-owned ZapCare's services
“The key to our business is we have priority status on the Navajo Nation, which means By Navajo law, since we're native owned, they're required to use our services, they're required to source our services over anybody else.”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 6:35 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa

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Everything Mark Atlan said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Atlan: The Navajo Nation faces an 81% obesity and diabetes rate
“The United States has about a 9.4% diabetes rate, and the Navajo nation has a 81% obesity and diabetes rate”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 1:31 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Assertion Partly supported
Atlan: 43% of Navajo residents lack running water or electricity
“43% don't have access to running water electricity in their homes.”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 1:21 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Assertion Supported
Atlan: Navajo law mandates the Nation prioritize Native-owned ZapCare's services
“The key to our business is we have priority status on the Navajo Nation, which means By Navajo law, since we're native owned, they're required to use our services, they're required to source our services over anybody else.”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 6:35 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Opinion
Atlan: Reservation healthcare ventures must be led from within Native communities
“This project needs to come from within. This project needs to come from a native. I've lived, ah, where I grew up, what I grew up with. I know the culture. First, it needs to start within.”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 10:21 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Assertion Partly supported
Atlan: The Navajo Nation has nine health facilities for 27,000 square miles
“It's 27,000 square miles, and there's only nine IHS locations.”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 3:14 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Disclosure
ZapCare plans to expand healthcare services to the Cherokee Nation and beyond
“As we focus on bringing healthcare services directly to the patient, starting with the Navajo Nation, we want to go to the next tribe, which is Cherokee Nation, or in Florida, and eventually come off of the reservation and offer our services, but we really wan…”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 5:50 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa
Assertion Supported
Atlan: The Navajo Nation suffers from a 48% unemployment rate
“Right now, the Navajo Nation has a 48% unemployment rate.”
Mark Atlan May 18, 2021 ▶ 11:25 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa May 18, 2021 8m
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