The Hustler's Guide to Nursing Jobs
The a16z Show
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🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hustling Tech, the show that helps you if you have ambition and drive and need to |
| 0:20.4 | get started, get into the tech world, and take advantage of the opportunities. |
| 0:27.0 | Today with us we have Iman who is CEO of Incredible health and Stephanie who is a hustler on the platform. |
| 0:37.0 | Now also with me is my co-host, as always, |
| 0:40.0 | Shaka St Gore, who hustled his way out of the joint and became a |
| 0:44.9 | best-selling author and all kinds of other stuff. We're excited to talk to you all |
| 0:49.6 | today about all the amazing things that you all have been doing. |
| 0:52.8 | I think the first question I have is like, what was your why? |
| 0:56.0 | So my why, so by background, I'm a medical doctor. |
| 0:59.4 | I don't practice at all anymore. |
| 1:01.0 | A lot of my family members and friends are doctors and |
| 1:03.1 | surgeons and they were often complaining about understaffing, especially not |
| 1:08.2 | having enough nurses on the floor, not wanting to rely on travel nurses or |
| 1:12.1 | contract nurses to take care of their patients. |
| 1:14.9 | And then at the same time my co-founder, Rome Portlock, he's a software engineer from MIT, he's |
| 1:19.6 | been building software for 15, 20 years, but sisters are nurses. |
| 1:23.4 | And even though they're experienced and qualified, they're saying it still takes me at least two, |
| 1:27.4 | three months to get my next job. |
| 1:29.8 | And we're like, okay, this doesn't make any sense sense and what we discovered is a lot of the processes |
| 1:35.6 | the tools software that HR teams at hospitals are using are very outdated they haven't actually changed |
| 1:42.3 | since I don't know, late 80s, early 90s. |
| 1:45.7 | We figured there just has to be a better way. |
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