#190: Tara Viswanathan, Co-Founder & CEO of Rupa Health, a Functional Medicine Platform Streamlining the Process of Speciality Labs for Practitioners
Tara Viswanathan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rupa Health, a functional medicine platform streamlining the process of specialty labs for practitioners.
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Some of the Topics Covered by Tara Viswanathan in this Episode
- What Rupa Health is and how it started
- The initial iteration of Rupa Health
- How Tara initially got people on the Rupa Health platform
- How Tara got the first prototype for Rupa Health built for only $800
- Tara's business model for Rupa Health initially and how this was one of her biggest "mistakes"
- Tara's troubles in raising her Seed round and how raising a Pre-Seed round was actually a blessing
- Tara's experience raising a $250K Pre-Seed Round
- Conversations around splitting up equity and why Tara changed her mind after initially decided an amount
- Why relative equity is more important than absolute percentages
- How Tara is approaching growing Rupa Health today
- Tara's approach to hiring as she scales her company
- How Tara takes care of her own mental health
- Tara's journaling routine and how it helps her
- Tara's experience working with Wim Hof
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