On the TechWaterloo stage ×1
First seen on the TechWaterloo stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Maryam ↗
In their words
It doesn't take that long until you realize that your business is kind of like your identity. You're investing all you have in it, and now it becomes an extension of you.
That's super hard when you're going through that rollercoaster of emotions. You have highs and you have super lows.
Quick answers
What was Airo Health?
A Y Combinator-backed company Jahed co-founded in 2016 building a wearable device to passively track and help manage mental health. Whether it still operates is not established here.
What was her argument about vulnerability?
That founders are expected to answer 'things are great' whatever is happening, and that the honest version — naming the doubt and the lows — is what makes the hard stretch survivable rather than a liability.
What does she do now?
She heads product at Midday, the menopause app built by Lisa Health, having also worked in product at Carbon Health.