The Startup Delivering Adderall
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🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In just two years, the mental-health startup Cerebral has grown to operate in 50 states, registered more than 200,000 patients, and reached a $4.8 billion valuation. Has it prioritized growth over patient care?
Guest: Caleb Melby
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:07.6 | In this past December, Bloomberg News reporter Caleb Melby found himself watching some TikToks. |
| 1:13.0 | And boxed my cerebral package with me. Your meds come straight to your door. The process is |
| 1:18.9 | dress free and simple. They were from the company Cerebral, an online mental healthcare startup. |
| 1:26.4 | The one that I remember the most is the one where a woman literally dances with a box of pills. |
| 1:33.5 | My cerebral package with me. Your meds come straight to your door. The process is |
| 1:38.8 | Melby and his co-author, Polly Mausons, watched a lot of cerebral videos. |
| 1:43.5 | Here are 10 natural remedies for anxiety. Some of them were fairly generic mental health |
| 1:48.4 | affirmations. But others advertised how easily medication for anxiety, depression, and ADHD |
| 1:54.8 | could come right to your door. The ads were eye-popping, for sure. It made us ask what's going on here. |
| 2:03.4 | And we decided to start calling around the company. They talk to employees and former employees. |
| 2:09.3 | A lot of whom are nurses. Some of those early calls it was like one of those conversations where it's |
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