Zoe Milgrom - Eugene Labs

This episode was produced in partnership with Eugene. Zoe Milgrom is the co-founder of Eugene, a health tech start-up whose ambition is to make genetic testing available to everyone.   Zoe began her career as a genetic counsellor; she decoded complex information for patients about their genetic conditions, and provided emotional and psychosocial support for a genetic diagnosis.  In 2017 while on mat leave, she started thinking about how there had to be a simpler and more affordable way to offer genetic tests to the broader community. It was at this exact moment the stars aligned and she met her co-founder Kunal, and after 6 months of co-founder dating, they set out to change the genetic testing landscape, providing an end-to-end online experience for patients.   You’ll learn: 

Why it took Zoe and her co-founders almost two years to build their MVP 

The challenges around scaling a health tech company where the margin of error is zero 

How Eugene secured millions of dollars in venture funding to scale the business, and how they’re deploying that capital 

How the current economic climate has forced them to rethink their fundraising strategy 

How overcoming fear has been a central theme of Zoe’s start-up story 

How Zoe approaches the never-ending juggle of founder-life and parenthood 

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