S9 Bonus: Ariel & Irena, Healthbird

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ariel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family members before he could drive. He continued his career later, in finance, then consumer product goods, then healthcare insurance. He loves to build things, and has started 13 - 15 businesses in his lifetime. Outside of tech, he is an avid drummer, and has been playing since he was 10 years old. Irena Tigranyan was born in Armenia, and moved to the US in 2014. She never dreamed of being a founder, cause in the world she was raised in, youalways worked for someone else. She has diverse professional experience in retail and operations, but outside of work, she likes to explore, kayaking, tennis and being outdoors. Fun fact - Ariel and Irena are married, IE partners in life and in business. They Met on Bumble, live in Miami, and invested their "wedding money" to found a company. Ariel and Irena wanted to build the Expedia for healthcare - to make it simple, and abstract away all the loopholes and jargon. They wanted to innovate in a non-innovative space, and to bring the swipe right or left mentality to healthcare insurance. This is the creation story of Healthbird. 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	So one of the missions that we have is really bringing this high tech to this industry to make it so intuitive and so effortless for people to just go in, find exactly what they want, and then buy it and then start using the health insurance in a preventative manner.
0:17.2	We bit off a little bit more than we can chew, right? Just's just because building a fully integrated system with all EHRs across the country
0:24.8	and working with every doctor required that we have a contract with every provider that we wanted to go after.
0:30.3	So we decided to scrap it and focus on what are the core items that you use on a daily basis associated to your health.
0:37.7	My name is Ariel Dominguez.
0:39.1	My name is Irene and Tigranian.
0:41.2	And we are the leaders of health care.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There'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.
1:00.3	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.
1:11.7	All that infrastructure was up pain.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
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