This week on the Andrew Yang podcast.

How do we get people to engage in mental health in the first place, right?

Like, we live in a world in which it's so easy to avoid it, right?

We could just go on TikTok, we can go on Instagram, we can watch TV, but doing the work is hard.

You have to sit there and want to do it.

And I think the cool thing about AI is that, okay, if before the atomic unit of getting

started was like committing to a therapist saying, okay, we're going to do five sessions

together, 10 sessions together, whatever, that's like a lot of work.

Maybe now the atomic unit can be like, all right, let's start in five minutes.

It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast of the first time somehow, I think, which is crazy.

Serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Casper and now Slinghot AI, Neil Parikh joins us.

Welcome, Neil.

Thanks, Andrew.

Excited to be here, Adam. So you're going to try and make a billion people mentally healthier, which is fantastic, and we're going to dig into that. But one thing people generally enjoy is the origin story, particularly of a successful serial entrepreneur like yourself. You and I met years and years ago.

You were coming out of Brown University, my alma mater. I had started a sleep company called Casper

that went on to Great Heights. Am I right that there was a point in time when you were pre-med,

where you were? I was Plymy. Yeah. You were Plemy. All right. For those of you don't know and no one knows, unless you're a Brown grad.

Pleamy is a program where you get into med school as a freshman, essentially.

Like you have to be very, very smart.

And then you get into college and they say, look, as long as you keep your nose clean and don't screw up too bad, you're automatically admitted into med school. So, pleemies at Brown tended to party more than the typical med student because,

you know, they're already admitted. So, so am I right that you walked away from a career as an

MD, the Asian dream? I did. That's true. Yeah, I mean, so, you know, my story was I didn't know anything besides medicine as a kid. My dad was a doctor.

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