In this episode, our guest is Derek Borkowski, PharmD, who is a pharmacist, software engineer, and founder of the Pyrls.com website and mobile app. He is a 2018 Doctor of Pharmacy graduate from the University of Minnesota. Derek's past experience includes work in community pharmacy, digital health, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Pyrls.com is a top drugs education and reference tool for clinicians and student-clinicians. Other company products include RxGrad.com and Pharmacist.dev Software developer of Pyrls.com, a top drugs education and reference tool for clinicians and student-clinicians. Other company products include RxGrad.com and Pharmacist.dev

Topics covered:

- What is Pyrls? Why did you create it?

- Tell us about Y Combinator?

- pathways to technology careers

- learning programming/technology skills as a pharmacist how to, what's useful, etc

- starting and growing an internet business - bootstrapping perspective (did this for the first 1.5 years of pyrls) or taking venture capital perspective (more recently)

Guest - Derek Borkowski, PharmD

Founder, CEO - Pyrls (YC W22)

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

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