Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

On this episode, we're joined by Kate Rosenbluth, founder and chief scientific officer of

Cala Health.

Kate is an engineer and neuroscientist with over 50 patents to her name,

and her company is pioneering wearable nerve stimulation therapies

aimed at hand tremors and other neurological disorders.

Well, it's so great to be here today, and I decided to focus my talk on the topic of needs-based innovation,

because when I think back to when I was an undergrad, sitting in audiences like this,

one of my more, I'd say, fundamental misconceptions was that I saw

startups and laying the groundwork for success as being fundamentally about that

moment of, you know, flash of genius as being primarily about the invention and about the

solution. And over time and experience, I think I've really come to learn that a lot of

the groundwork

for success is really laid in taking a deep understanding of the needs, of really building

your company, of building your team, of raising capital, and ultimately of selling your products,

is really in many ways grounded in understanding your why, and then building that sort of through the course of a framework behind a company.

So what I'm going to talk through today is really grounding a number of stories

from building Cala Health, which is, as Emily mentioned,

as a company I spent out of Stanford Biodesign about five years ago.

And I'm going to use that really as the framework to walk through needs-based innovation.

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