S8 Bonus: Einat Sitbon, iFocus Health

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computational Biology. This field also introduced her to computation in general, and programming. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 kids, and loves to hike. Her and her family share a love of fiction and fantasy books, and made mention her love of NK Jemision and JRR Tolkien. Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem. This is the creation story of iFocus Health. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	As a computational biology, my first language was R.
0:05.5	So I used that to build the algorithm, knowing it's not the best correct tool to write,
0:13.4	and it's not very projectable.
0:16.2	But it does the work.
0:17.3	I mean, statistically, it's good.
0:19.6	And I knew I could get from, you know,
0:22.3	zero to 100 using R pretty fast because we wanted to have something up and running in the world
0:28.9	to create value for users. So we really found the minimal set of features, namely a person
0:36.2	uses it with and without medication.
0:39.3	I'm a Nazi Dibon, the CTO and co-founder of I Focus Health.
0:46.6	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	It's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was a pain.
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