E1019: Mahmee CEO & Co-Founder Melissa Hanna is helping new moms navigate thru postpartum care, shares insights on getting Serena Williams & Mark Cuban to invest, improving the experience for mothers of color & adding structure to a fragmented industry

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:58 Jason intros Melissa Hanna
1:40 What is Mahmee? What challenges are they solving for?
4:54 How does Mahmee acquire customers? Who pays for the service?
7:37 What is the current cost of having a child in the US? What are some glaring postpartum care issues in the US?
15:28 How did Melissa get Arlan Hamilton to invest?
18:42 How did Mark Cuban invest in Mahmee?
21:02 Why are black mothers 3-4x more likely to die from childbirth? Why is there such bias in healthcare?
28:31 How can Mahmee increase the birth experience across the US?
33:24 How does Melissa balance balancing the current confines in which they have to work with looking towards the future and what is possible?
38:42 What are the complexities of the healthcare space that make it hard for startups? What is the opportunity?
45:47 What are some Mahmee success stories?
51:54 Better ways to deal with postpartum depression?
57:01 How did Serena Williams come onboard via Serena Ventures?

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1:01.8	a founder who is trying to save moms from dying and or getting hurt in childbirth.
1:08.0	It's a real phenomenon here in the United States.
1:10.0	You would think in the developed world we would have solved this problem but
1:13.6	there's a lot of unnecessary deaths and unnecessary injuries in childbirth and I'm really
1:19.6	excited to have Melissa Hannah, Hannah, no, Hannah, two ends from mommy which is spelled fanatically
1:28.8	mah-h-m-e-e-com.
1:31.6	Yes. Welcome to the program. Thank com. Yes.
1:33.0	Thank you.
1:34.0	Tell me what does mommy do?
1:37.8	In this case your company mom.
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