Closing Time Podcast: Founder Pitches More Accessible Mental Healthcare, Starting With Sleep

In this episode, Jenna Xu pitches her vision for massively more accessible mental healthcare, starting with sleep. Docbotic uses clinically-proven therapy bots available over SMS and WhatsApp. Their first product is Sleepbot, a 4-week text messaging program that is “monumentally helpful to having the most meaningful night's rest”.

This episode dives deep into:

  • Why accessibility and affordability are so important to her
  • Why she chose to go D2C
  • Figuring out pricing
  • Building a clinically-validated therapy bot with no clinician/human interaction

Co-hosted by Halle Tecco and Michael Esquivel, Closing Time is a podcast where you, the listener, get to be a fly on the wall during a startup pitch meeting. Imagine being part of a room where passionate entrepreneurs are pitching their healthcare startups, the innovations that could very well shape the future of healthcare. This podcast allows you to do just that.