#59 Start-up fintech removing barriers to healthcare, Steven Zinsli founder HealthNow
People Inspired By Purpose - Purposely Podcast
Shownotes Transcript
27 year old Steven Zinsli is the founder of Fintech start-up HealthNow, Steven joined Purposely to share his founder story and his vision for the future of his business. A company that combines a focus on making profit alongside purpose and social impact. You could say a new kind of company measuring success in different 'better world' ways.
Steven is incredibly focused, competitive and driven, he is also determined to improve people's health outcomes, he talks about his parents struggling to meet doctors bills when he was young and how access to credit (from the doctor) had played a key role in ensuring the family stayed healthy.
Steven is now using these traits to play active role in creating a world where healthcare is more accessible, more equitable and he is using tech to facilitate this change. He has thrown himself into the tech start-up world which he describes as challenging ... 'dog eat dog'!
We also explore how an experience at school transformed his approach to work and life, from a student relying on natural intelligence to scrape through to what he has become... an overachiever hell bent on smashing every opportunity that comes his way. You will hear about his disciplined life sacrificing vices normal for most twenty somethings. Stevens early starts, long days and hours spent in the gym 'focused on his own health'. Don't worry I do push him on this.. 'surely you have some vices?...' 'do you like donuts?!'
Steven started his journey in healthcare in 2016 as the first musculoskeletal podiatrist in what was a small New Zealand rehabilitation company, Physio Connect with less than 10 staff. He joined as a partner and over the next 5 years, Steven and a business partner grew the company to 108+ staff and 14 clinics seeing 4 thousand plus patients per week.
This tangible experience provided Steven with an array of opportunities to... 'learn, gain scar tissue and meet some amazing people. It also gave me significant insight into customer challenges in the healthcare sector.'
Earlier this year Steven secured pre-seed capital from what he describes as committed investors and partners. Steven and his team are now working tirelessly to make healthcare more accessible to the public through a Fintech solution that will move healthcare into the palm of your hand and make healthcare more accessible to more people.