Venture Everywhere Podcast: Jannine Versi with Scott Hartley
Scott Hartley, co-founder of Everywhere Ventures catches up with Jannine Versi , co-founder and COO of Elektra Health on Episode 2: Taboo Smashing.
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Jannine Versi is the co-founder and COO of Elektra Health, a company on a mission to smash the menopause taboo by empowering women with evidence-based education, care, and community. Prior to Elektra, Jannine spent her career in healthcare, tech, and government including roles at Google and the White House.
This episode is hosted by Scott Hartley, co-founder and general partner of Everywhere Ventures (previously The Fund). Scott and Jannine have known each other for almost two decades. In this interview, they discuss how Jannine's diverse background informed her founding journey, her quest to smash the menopause taboo, and the future of healthcare in light of advances in AI and data. Learn from their conversation on why humanity studies is more relevant than ever, and get tips on what makes a good co-founding partnership.
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Jenny Fielding
Hi, and welcome to the everywhere podcast. We're a global community of founders and operators who've come together to support the next generation of builders. So the premise of the podcast is just that: founders interviewing other founders about the trials and tribulations of building a company. Hope you enjoy the episode.
Scott Hartley
Welcome, Jannine to the podcast. We're so excited to have you here with us today. Jannine Versi is a longtime friend and founder and is the co founder and CEO of Elektra Health. Welcome, Janine.
Jannine Versi
Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to join you.
Scott Hartley
Yeah. So what what people might not know on the podcast is that we've probably known each other since 2007. And been around the world, both in India and in Washington. And maybe you could tell folks a little bit about your background, such an interesting background coming from Google and public policy in DC, and then moving into taking the plunge to founding a company.
Jannine Versi
Yeah, thank you. It's definitely been an interesting and nonlinear journey, I would say. I'm someone who came from a family of doctors and was not personally interested in pursuing medicine myself, I was a lover of history and social studies. And that's what I studied in undergrad. I was at Penn doing international relations and really loved that intersection of social sciences with economics and politics. And so you know, fast forward a number of years, I did a, you know, almost the - oftentimes UPenn students go immediately to Wall Street. And I did do that, prior to the great recession. And then left very quickly. Moved to India to work on microfinance, which is where I got to meet Scott. And then fast forward a number of years, was at Google in the early days, when Google was just contemplating whether YouTube was ever going to be a monetizable product. For them. Facebook was a startup, it was really early, early days, and the internet 2.0 phase when Instagram didn't even exist.
Jannine Versi
And then, you know, having grown up as one of three girls with two parents and medicine, I was always very interested in women's health. But I don't think I really connected the dots. Until I was headed to business school, I went to HBS after Google, and was looking for that industry where I could have a lot of impact, but also get to be, you know, at a small, fast growing, fast paced environment. And ironically, even though I went from Google looking for a startup, I ended up taking a left turn into the Obama administration. I got to work in the White House. I went back for two years full time, because that was just a once in a lifetime opportunity, definitely connecting back to the policy passion of my undergrad days, and said, you know, digital health will still be here, when I kind of, you know, exit the Washington scene. And sure enough, the digital health scene had not only remained but it had really exploded into a very vibrant and interesting kind of, you know, new consumer driven healthcare space. So, you know, can tell you more about that founding journey, but maybe I'll pause because I feel like...
Scott Hartley
Well, I think it's so fascinating. It's something that we definitely share. And, you know, maybe what brought us together in friendship was this sort of interesting desire for both scale and impact. And I know in my own journey, thinking through these various incarnations of how do you have impact, but how do you also have it at scale? And how do you have it on the pace that accords with the lifestyle that you want to lead in the trade offs between these different organizations are different, like you have Google - you have immense scale, but you have kind of this sclerotic, bureaucratic big processing organization, right. Even though people think Google is heavily innovative, when you get inside the belly of the beast, things can sometimes move quite slowly. And you know, maybe similarly to the scale and impact you can have in Washington. But then again, you're dealing with public sector bureaucracy. Obviously, on the startup side, you have sort of this ability to move quickly and be very agile, but then at the same time, it's a slog to sort of build those levels of scale. So maybe tell us a little bit about Elektra Health and part of the journey there as well. Amazing things that The Fund's being able to put you in Alessandra together in the early days.
Jannine Versi
I was gonna get there! Don't worry, it's a very important part of the story. But just to comment, you know, I think people that you know, occasionally seek me out or you know, that I mentor or ask for advice. Especially coming from business school often or, you know, naming this conundrum of wanting to have an impact. And I often say that for the people that really are committed to making a difference in the lives of others, I think there are few better places to go and spend some time than the government, whether that's state, local, federal. There is just no organization that has the scale of the federal government. And that was an extremely motivating and inspiring fact that was part of my daily existence in DC, the work that we did really mattered. And my colleagues were unbelievably impressive, talented folks, oftentimes, you know. Masters and PhDs, and I think really did buck the stereotype that is often associated with folks working in government. So, and honestly, no one hustles like somebody who's worked on a campaign. So you know, if people are looking for really bright, fast, and excellent generalists, I always think about people who work on campaigns.
Jannine Versi
So, you know, pathway to Elektra and just to share for the audience. Elektra Health is a women's health company. We are on a mission to smash the menopause taboo. And we believe that every woman should have access to evidence based education, virtual care, and a safe and private community to enable her to thrive through the menopause journey and for the decades that follow. And unfortunately, given how universal this experience is, and often takes a decade of a woman's life, it is a taboo topic. It's something that we often don't talk about. It's wrapped up in sexism, ageism, certainly racism for a lot of women of color. And women in menopause are in their, you know - that can happen at various ages - but often we think of those in their 40s and 50s and even 60s, who are some of the most influential consumers. They're certainly influential, and when it comes to health care spend for their families, they're the sandwich generation. And they're really important in the workforce. So lots to say on that topic.
Jannine Versi
But my path to Elektra was really informed by the work that I did. I was on the founding team of a company called Cityblock health, based in New York, an amazing company that cares for individuals with complex medical and social needs. They tend to be Medicare and Medicaid members. And so we're really talking about the individuals who lack access to care and services. And then often, the costs associated with that are pretty enormous. And so we really need to think about how to improve the health care system for those who have the least access, but some of the greatest issues. Anyway, having spent time at Cityblock, building the team, getting into the value based care space, I realized that there was an opportunity in the women's health area that I had not been paying as much attention to it - just wasn't part of Cityblock's focus. But I was increasingly drawn to innovation and women's health specifically. And so I reached out to a couple of friends just to catch up, I was loosely thinking about next steps. And Scott said, hey, you know, there's someone that you have to meet, you have to have coffee with. You're both interested in women's health. And it ended up being a coffee that ran over for hours with my now co founder, Alessandra Henderson, who's an incredible human and part of The Fund community before even I was. So Scott and Jenny and the whole Fund community is really - we have a huge debt of gratitude to you for bringing us together and being essentially the beginning of our founding story.
Scott Hartley
I still remember some of those whiteboard sessions in the Flatiron in the TechStars office! Where we were all bonding over the summer.
Jannine Versi
Definitely.
Scott Hartley
As you guys explored this, what you call kind of a taboo subject area that has historically not been talked about as much, what are the ways in which Elektra is kind of bringing some of these topics to the surface? Or how are you - what do you think about kind of integration of hormonal education earlier into curricula? Or at what time should people be learning about these subjects?
Jannine Versi
I love the question. I think the answer is from the start. It's something that you know, we all know, individuals experiencing menopause. Everybody knows or has someone that they love in their lives, and they might not know that it can be a really challenging time of transition. There are a lot of symptoms associated with menopause because there are estrogen receptors all over our bodies, our brains, our bones, our heart. Definitely your pelvic floor, your vaginal health. So much is tied up in this transition, it's really puberty in reverse. And so if we think it's important for people to be educated about their bodies, and to understand what all of these milestones and human and biological development entail, then I think it's important for menopause to be included.
Jannine Versi
To put a finer point on it, one of our incredible teammates, she's a nurse by training. Her name is Laura Stratte. And she lives in Wisconsin. And after a career in nursing, reached out to Elektra - which is actually how we have recruited some of the best folks that we work with - was like, this is super interesting, I need this for my patients. And lo and behold, not too long later, we brought her on to the team, but she actually wrote a menopause guide for high schoolers. And to her daughter's chagrin - her daughter is a high schooler - she brought it over to the health teacher, and it was accepted and sort of encouraged. And so I applaud them for that. But I think we, in general, need to talk about these topics more. And that's menopause, of course, but also women's health across the spectrum, and individuals health, mental health, holistic health, because the traditional sorting of healthcare into sort of organs and systems of the body is increasingly outmoded. It's not how we experience health and well being. And, you know, I think COVID has made that disastrously clear for all of us.
Scott Hartley
It's a push back as well on the kind of echo chambers of social media. And I think, even just ways in which, you know, I lived in New York City. In certain neighborhoods where there wasn't as much intergenerational conversation happening or conversation across different lines, different communities, different points of life. And so having these conversations earlier, and across different spectra, it seems like you guys are doing a great service for bringing those conversations to the forefront. What do you think, as far as in the public perception? Are there myths? Are there things that you guys are pushing back to, to kind of change the narrative around things that are maybe commonly misunderstood?
Jannine Versi
Yeah, it's a huge part of what we do, speaking out and bringing evidence based information to everybody. And one of the big developments for Elektra over the past year has been increasingly working with employers and health plans, as well as, we have our roots and our DNA in direct to consumer and having started with thousands of conversations with women individually in their homes. Pre COVID, where women were bringing their friends and we were bringing our medical experts and understanding there was something really powerful and magical about the learning that takes place there. And part of what we've done is to productize that and to make it part of the service that we offer with expertise that is trustworthy, because Dr. Google is not the place to go. Google is, you know, amazing for many, many things, but for your education, and to understand your options around managing your menopause care, I would not recommend it.
Jannine Versi
But so in terms of some of the common myths, I would say that, you know, people often think menopause and they say, oh, you know, that's my mom. And if you're me, hope my mom's not listening to this, you know, that somebody who might be in their 70s. And in fact, maybe still experiencing symptoms of menopause. But they probably went through that transition at something like late mid to late 40s. And menopause is a period of time 12 months after your last period. So it's actually just a moment in time, but the menopause transition is many years long and can start in the 40s. And some research indicates maybe even the late 30s. That's a big myth. People are sort of associate this with women who are decades older than they are in reality, and that also affects physician education. And these stereotypes are true in the delivery of health care, unfortunately.
Jannine Versi
Menopause is a topic that is fairly complex, because hormones are complex, and they interact with different parts of the body. And so you do need a little bit of specialized education and I know many, many physicians - I'm married to one - they don't always get that education in medical school or in residency. And so it's important that we help women be advocates for their own care. This is 50% of the population. It is not a niche. And part of taking advantage, being an advocate for their own care is understanding what to expect in symptoms. There are like 34 symptoms that can potentially be associated with menopause. And many of them do have evidence based treatments. Whether that is you know, pharmacological or if that is lifestyle and oriented around nutrition and sleep and taking a more focused approach to supplements and those that have been studied and have some evidence behind them. So all that is to say that there's a lot that people can do. And there is a myth that this is just something that women go through later on at some uncertain time. And they just need to grit their teeth and bear it. And that is false. Because for a lot of women, it can be a really devastating experience. And whether you're in the boardroom or you're someone that has, you know, struggled to get access to health care you all, we all deserve high quality care, education and community.
Scott Hartley
And out of curiosity, like within the Elektra platform, are there ways in which you guys are actively working to engage men as well as women to kind of educate across the spectrum?
Jannine Versi
Such a good question. So I will back up and just explain what Elektra offers. We have built a full stack digital platform to help women navigate this journey with education, care, and community. And care really means two things. It's access to nurses who are trained in menopause. And it's really counseling and coaching and also access to telemedicine specialists, so menopause providers who really have been taken care of thousands of menopausal women and understand how to treat the symptoms of menopause medically and clinically. And then we provide a lot of really rigorous, hundreds of hours of MD created information and content.
Jannine Versi
And the community piece is really where the opportunity to work with allies comes in. And we do often refer to you know, women's health, it's more colloquial, but certainly Hormonal Health applies to everybody. And one of the recent ERG events we did with a partner had something like, I think 150 people signed up, and I believe that fully order were identified themselves as male, and that it got rave reviews, I think we had a NPS of 74 following that. And, you know, you think about a lunchtime webinar, it's not necessarily something that people are leaning into. But the engagement was really impressive. I think it feels like a novel topic. But also people do relate, they see maybe their partners or their friends or their bosses, or they recall family members' experiences. And, and again, for some, it can be really significant. And for others, I think, you know, they're doing their part and understanding this is something that we as a society should not be whispering about. It's a very normal, natural transition. And we should support people as they navigate the world, in menopause and beyond.
Scott Hartley
And speaking of navigating, out of curiosity, as you as you know, founder of a healthcare company kind of coming into the space that's highly regulated with HIPAA compliance, medical information, data privacy, all these sorts of topics at hand. You know, for those out there that may be aspiring to start a company in a market as big and exciting as healthcare, you know, what are some of the things that you've learned, been blindsided by been? The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly? years? Because I know, it's no easy task to start a company number one and number two, especially in healthcare.
Jannine Versi
Yes. And especially during a pandemic.
Scott Hartley
Trifecta, and then that's not to mention having twins as well.
Jannine Versi
Well. It's been a busy few years, I'll say. I think it's a really good question. I think that founder life gets, you know, often glamorized or some of these stories are told with like, really seriously rosy lenses. And I'm all for that, I think, you know, you have to have in some ways an unnatural optimism to do this work. Because we all know that, you know, statistics around the success of startups is not exactly, you know, not betting odds. But when you have a problem area that you're so passionate about, and I think Alessandra says it's really well. When you're like waking up in the middle of the night, or maybe not even able to sleep because you're turning this problem around and over and over and over again. There's something there that's worth looking into and thinking about, because it really takes so much of that curiosity and that passion and kind of a, you know, an inability to get bored by the topic. Because when the going gets tough, that is the reserve that you draw from to remind yourself like, this is why I'm here and this is why I, you know, perhaps didn't go to a big company with cushy benefits. And, an office. I don't know how many people have offices anymore. But at one point in my career, that was a thing.
Jannine Versi
And for me, I think it building in healthcare, as someone who didn't come from either a health plan or a provider health system, I mean, I had worked in digital health a lot. But that was just one slice of the bigger healthcare industry, there is so much that you learn just by doing and I think we have seen generations now of people kind of coming from the tech world and saying, I had this really crappy experience myself, as a patient. And that often drives a lot of people to build in healthcare. And I really applaud that. And certainly I relate, we relate at Elektra. But it is a space that is dominated by incumbents, and you cannot show up, move fast, and break things in the way that it might be possible in some other areas of consumer tech. Because you're talking about patients and patient safety, and data and privacy and very serious regulatory frameworks that are, you know, unfortunately, way too complicated. They were written, you know, prior to the internet era, and haven't necessarily been updated.
Jannine Versi
But that is the world in which we live, and these incumbents cannot be ignored. And I've seen people kind of banging their head against the wall saying, like, we're not going to work with them, you know, we're gonna avoid the health systems or avoid the payers, we're gonna go direct to consumer. And that can work. But if Facebook / Meta, you know, tweaks an algorithm and your CACs go to the roof, and you're like how do I acquire patients at scale? You might find yourself starting to think about, you know, where you do fit into the existing environment. And so I just, I think it's great to come in with that passion to do something radically different. And I encourage people to have the patience to also acknowledge that there, there are people that have been in this space for a long time trying to affect change from within. And it's not simply the new comers or the innovative, tech enabled folks. We have a lot to learn from each other. I think that that tension between, you know, maybe the tech enabled and the like, grew up in the traditional health care industry is actually a really good and important tension that we should have. Yeah.
Scott Hartley
It's interesting too that you say that, in a lot of ways I mean, healthcare, even though it's one of the more challenging domains to kind of enter into, it's also maybe a leading indicator of the direction that other domains could go with the sort of rise of AI with the rise of data being sort of the jet fuel beneath the hood of, of AI. There's a lot of movement toward what's called zero party data where maybe Facebook doesn't own the data. But Jannine owns the data on Jannine, Scott owns the data on Scott. And I choose the permission that let somebody to monetize through the form of AI or to train models. So the healthcare system that has been, you know, working through HIPAA compliance and sort of, for obviously, patient protection and for making sure that pre existing conditions or something can't be sort of - you can't spill the beans and then not provide health care to somebody because that person deserves health care. It's interesting that some of these trends might bubble out of healthcare into other sectors where it's your point, moving fast and break things, breaking things in the consumer space, maybe was a fad that won't be here forever.
Scott Hartley
I'm curious too, you talked about what keeps you up at night being the optimism. I think a lot of people think of, you know, what keeps you up at night as being the things that you're fearful of. But I love to flip around on that, that it's actually for a lot of founders, what keeps you up at night is the sheer interest in the topic, the opportunity at hand, the pace, you might want to be moving faster, to do things. I think that's a really inspiring framing for that. And I'm curious, as somebody who has to juggle a ton of stuff, including as I mentioned, new twins, running a company, living living in a busy city like New York City, how do you manage your time? And are there any kind of productivity hacks? What's the secret sauce, because I'm still looking to figure out.
Jannine Versi
If someone has it, send it over. Well, let me go back one to one thing. I think when you were saying people who might be interested in entering the space, you know, how might they think about this as founders-to-be and I certainly think if you go down that journey, you will likely be up at all hours of the night with a lot of fears and concerns and anxieties and that is like 1,000% normal. And, you know, there is definitely like burnout, anxiety and depression rates are pretty high within the founding community. And I think the community is part of the antidote to that, along with you know, I have a fantastic therapist, I also have a startup coach. I spend a lot of time and, frankly, money on trying to help me stay grounded so that, you know, I can do this work because it is very intense. And the highs are high and the lows are low. And so I do not - I think it's great to be massively optimistic coming into it. But I'm also like, a realist and a pragmatist. And oftentimes, you know, I'm as the ops side of things, it's always going to cost twice as much and take three times as long or maybe the inverse. But that is part of the beginning. I would say like, if you're not wrestling with something that is endlessly fascinating to you, like, I wouldn't perhaps pursue it as a founder. But certainly, there are plenty of things that keep you know, all of us up at night. And I don't want to diminish that either.
Jannine Versi
So to your question about how I spend my time, I mean, I wish I had a really great productivity hack. I think, well, maybe a concrete one - from another founder friends - so like, all of my best tips come from other founders in the community, I think there's nothing like the support that you get from one another. And it's, it's just a really amazing sub culture of generosity for some of the people that are like, really the busiest and the hardest working almost always make time to talk about a fundraise or to help you pitch or to give you feedback on an idea. And so I do have to say that it's been a privilege to be part of and to hopefully contribute to that group. So anyway, a founder tip recently was something called Vimcal. V-I-M-C-A-L. Maybe I'm late to the game. But rather than spending all this time, kind of manually looking for open spaces in my calendar, I just like, integrate this tool and click and drag and like, voila, here's the list of times that are available. And people might say, Oh, but there's Calendly. And I think, for whatever reason, culturally Calendly sometimes feels awkward. If you're especially asking somebody else to be generous and give you some of their time, it feels weird to be like, here's my calendar. This might not need to make it into the podcast. But anyway, that's one tool that I find pretty helpful. And otherwise, I think I've just been incredibly lucky. And I don't know what else to say about it. I have an amazing partner. And he really does, if not equal than perhaps like the lion's share of the childcare and sometimes the housework. Certainly we have - he also works at a digital health startup. So, you know, we each have busy times, and when it's super busy for us both, we call on our families or our friends. We have an amazing nanny. So you know, the childcare would be a massive piece to that. But it's really like a privilege, that we are able to deploy resources to do the work that we do, and it wouldn't be possible without that.
Scott Hartley
I'm curious, too. One of the things you said about like the depth of curiosity, going back to early employee or co founder selection. Even the sort of depth of curiosity around the topic area is something that when you mentioned that, it resonated with me from giving a talk a few years ago at Fidelity's senior management team, including the CEO and sort of the top leadership, are all majors in subjects like history, philosophy, deeply curious people. And they, they were asking, you know, why is it that the people that stay at Fidelity for 30-40 years, joined the board, and run the company are not necessarily accounting majors or business majors? They're people that sort of saw the whole picture of retirements, life's life cycles, and had the depth of curiosity to find this subject matter interesting for 30 or 40 years to kind of rise through the ranks and stay at the company. And I thought that was a really profound statement. And their question to me and to the group was, how do we sort of incentivize bringing more curious folks into the company? Because those are the people that we think will rise through the ranks and become leaders for the company.
Scott Hartley
And so when you think about hiring, how do you select for curiosity, or how do you select for passion? How did you and Alessandra maybe think through, you know, seeing eye to eye on: Are we going to go the distance in this startup? You know, it's really difficult to pick a co founder, you guys did it quickly. And it seems like it's been great. And so love kind of any of the tricks because it's one of the hardest parts of startup life is picking your team. And being equally on board with a hard journey together.
Jannine Versi
Yeah. I think it's a great question. I love that Fidelity anecdote. I did not know that. And of course, you know, this is the very topic of your book. And I should have mentioned that earlier, but I am definitely a an advocate for people who study the humanities. I'm not one of those people that's like, you know, it's outmoded. And we should all be doing STEM all the time. I think we need to have people with well rounded passions and interests and who understand a little bit about the world that we operate in. I mean, you asked kind of two sets - two questions. So maybe I'll start with the founding journey for Alessandra and I. We call it like, you know, founder dating or co founder dating for shorthand. Alessandra had spent time at Human Ventures, which is really a New York based fund and incubator of fantastic companies and I think rightly prides itself on helping to build these lasting founding teams. And so Alessandra is, in some ways, like an expert in that space coming into it. And we spent a lot of time certainly in conversation, but also using structured questionnaires and surveys and spent time with the founder coach who kind of had us go through exercises, and then separately and together discussed where we have overlap and similarities and differences. And I don't know what the data are on this. But Alessandra and I are both people who were in the humanities, we both went - she to China and me to India after undergrad - I think we have a lot of that innate curiosity. She was in the art world I was in, you know, government and Google and so we weren't necessarily preordained or predestined to end up in healthcare, even women's health. But I think those are all similarities. It wasn't as though she was the business person and I was the CTO.
Jannine Versi
Part of the reason for that was when we had these really honest - I think honesty is like the foundation of this, like, if you can't be, I was gonna say radically honest, but I feel like that's a little overused. But if you can't be as honest as possible, with this person that you're going to spend more time with, than really any other person in your life most likely, don't do it. You know, if you if you don't find the ability to be really deeply open and transparent, like don't go down that road. And I think we did. And a part of what we shared is that: we wanted like psychological partners and psychological safety. And as two people who are in their 30s, who wanted to start families and did in the last, you know, four years, we wanted to have a partner that we could rely on in the event that we became parents. And we did. And so I think that was a huge part of the conversation. And it wouldn't have happened if we didn't do that really deep interrogation. And we took the time to do that, which I might not have had the instinct to do. But I think that really I credit to Alessandra and the way in which she has, you know, worked with and around startups for a long time.
Jannine Versi
The next piece of the question was, how do we seek out that curiosity and that desire to be in it for the long term, and not only desire, but the kind of grit and dedication that comes with it. And I'll say that, in building Elektra, we've tapped into something that draws really talented people to us. And moreover, they are the folks that are so motivated that they will say, you know, I've spent time looking at, you know, we put a lot of content out into the world. And so if someone hasn't been to our website and doesn't have a suggestion for what they could improve, even if that's like a copy error, if they haven't taken the time to understand a little bit about what we do and how we're positioned and who else is in the space. I think it's a, you know, a kind of clear flag just because there are a lot of people who were in a fairly unique area where there aren't a ton of spaces, like this digital health meets menopause and women's health. So the curiosity is often what leads the conversation when candidates come to us.
Scott Hartley
It's such a good point. I often refer to a quote that's attributed to Voltaire. I don't know if he actually said it or not: Judge a person by their questions, not by their answers. And in a world where we can always find the answers. What's more, kind of informative is - Do you have any questions for me? That end of the interview where you say, Do you have any more questions for me, and the person shrugs and says, No. That doesn't intimate a deep sense of curiosity, or that fervor that drive. That's actually one of the key points of the interview probably is absolutely yes, I do have questions, here they are. So thanks for sharing.
Jannine Versi
I find - I don't know about you - but I find that like a 30 minute interview goes so fast. If you leave the questions to the end, you might not get there. And so sometimes I try to move that part of the agenda up or find a way to tap into what is driving them and what are they really interested in and is there - does this makes sense to continue the dialogue around a little bit earlier in the discussion.
Scott Hartley
Amazing. And so for those that want to find you after this episode, where can they find Jannine online?
Jannine Versi
Yeah, absolutely. Well, Elektra Health, Elektra is spelled with a K. You can go to The Fund's website. You can find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, all the usual places. And my email is just Jannine at Elektra Health dot com. I have three N's in my name. But again, if you're sort of curious intrepid person, I'm sure you will find that and find a way to send me a note no problem.
Scott Hartley
Well, Jannine, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. And I look forward to seeing you in New York.
Jannine Versi
Thank you so much for having me. And thank you for being such an instrumental part of our founding journey. We wouldn't be here without you guys.
Scott Hartley
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