Stigma

“So we have one customer so far that is TXI in Chicago. They're paying to license content because they want stories around disability. They do town halls, and they do quarterly stories, and they said, we just want your story.”

“I, it feels like there are a few hoops that, you know, one needs to jump through to get that conviction that some people watching certain videos will reduce healthcare costs in this way, and I feel like I'm not quite there, so for that reason, I'm out.”

“One of the bigger problems with the low utilization of EAPs is that HR people aren't typically marketers. They don't know how to do it that well. No one knows how to talk about mental health that easily. And they don't have a budget for creating newsletters an…”

“I think that nine pre is very, very frothy.”

“Ariana is officially back to fundraising, for a smaller amount than the million she was asking for on her show.”

“That to me just seems like a easier business model than trying to spin this up as something you sell directly.”

“I'm in. I'm in for 50 K.”

“The problem and the sort of bad news for today's call is that it takes time to earn trust, and the moment we take on a big amount of capital, we understand that you all as venture capitalists have returns to make and growth targets to hit, and I won't trade on…”

“Last year, US employers saw a two hundred and twenty five billion dollar loss in productivity as a result of poor employee mental health.”

“And we're raising a million dollars to bring this unique style of storytelling to the workplace.”

“That's not a company. That's a feature. Like, that company could put it into Slack.”

“The first implementation is the integration of generative AI that we have trained on the hundreds of offers of hope and asks for hope that we already have in the platform.”

“I invest a lot in this space and I know that there are a lot of companies like Ginger and Hurdle and a number of other ones that have this content. Just Kaiser, even the healthcare systems, has a whole library of these exactly looking like this.”

“I went to San Francisco and met with Sequoia and they were like, this is a bad path. Don't go down it.”