Zoe’s Biography

Zoe Lee is a medical student at Keele University in the UK. She’s also a part-time Community Associate at Melon, an EdTech startup which aims to boost Gen-Z’s microlearning process. Besides those two things, she also recently joined a Healthtech fellowship program at BiteLabs Healthtech, where the goal is to get together in groups and build a Healthtech product within a few weeks.

Things we talked about

• What Zoe is currently doing in her third year of medical school, and why she chose to study Medicine
• Getting her first tech startup job at Melon: How she applied, how many other applications she sent out and her small “hack” for (maybe?) improving your chances
• What she does at Melon and what it means building a community and creating content for TikTok
• How she manages to do juggle her tech startup job with her studies in medical school: Remote work, flexible work hours, time off for studying and more
• We discussed whether good “quality” work is rewarded more in tech startups vs. in the hospital
• What’s more fun: Whether working at a tech startup or as a doctor?
• Her experience joining the BiteLabs Healthtech Fellowship
• Her interest in writing and what she would do if she wouldn’t have to earn money
• What advice she would give to other medical students / junior doctors who are interested in exploring other opportunities or working in tech

Links As Mentioned In The Podcast

• Zoe on LinkedIn.
• Zoe wrote this article about how she landed her tech startup job as a medical student.
• Zoe recently posted on LinkedIn with a link to resources she curated on Melon for “breaking into tech with a clinical background”
• Melon, the startup for which Zoe is working part-time, building their Community
• Company TikTok account of Melon for which Zoe creates videos
• The BiteLabs Healthtech Fellowship, a for-profit fellowship in which groups build a product in Healthtech in a few weeks.