Welcome everyone to episode 69 of Underserved. Joining me today is Eli Goldberg, VP of

Applied Data Science at Current Health. Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Eli, thank you so much for joining us on Underserved.

It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks.

So, growing up in Marshfield, Wisconsin, like, was there much technology around? Or what was it like?

Yeah, no, not really. Marshfield, Wisconsin is a small town in the sort of geographic center of the Northern continent in the middle of nowhere.

It's a strange place. I think it was best known for the world's largest round barn.

It's like nothing more than just a really big round barn. I think now it's been replaced, so I think it's even lost that claim to fame.

But it's, for the most part, a kind of a farming community. The culture itself is very agrarian.

But there's a really big clinic there, the Marshfield Clinic, which is fairly well known for its patient care experience.

And while technology, I wouldn't say was at the heart of everything that Marshfield did for the surrounding industries.

I think they did have a pretty remarkable heart of technology that was being driven because of the relationship to the really big clinic.

I've always loved computers. And I remember building my very first computer saving up for it with my friends and building, I think, an Athalon T-Bird 650.

And it all the bells and whistles. And, you know, I was so impressed by it.

Now, I've actually gone back to my hometown and looked at that computer recently. It's covered in dust.

And the graphics card is like the size of a postage stamp right now.

So if you like look at it in compare it to like a 3090 or whatever, it's just come a long way.

But I wouldn't say there's a lot of tech in Marshfield.

So your parents were physicians?

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