The mental health crisis isn't a supply problem — there are plenty of therapists. It's an access problem. Insurance is the bottleneck and we're opening it.
A doctor can wait six months to start seeing patients because their paperwork is stuck in a credentialing queue. That's six months of patients who can't get care.
The stigma conversation is important but it's a distraction from the access conversation. Even when people want help, they can't find a good therapist who takes their insurance within 30 miles.
A candle maker in Portland can now sell to a gift shop in Vermont without ever meeting them, without a sales team, and without worrying about getting paid. That was impossible five years ago.
I grew up in Jordan with slow internet. I built Replit because I wanted the IDE I never had.
Financial literacy isn't about education. It's about access. Give people good tools and they make good decisions.
Health tech during COVID went from nice-to-have to essential. Nurx and telehealth proved that access to care shouldn’t require a waiting room.