Jarrad Aguirre recently raised a $12M seed round to modernize heart health and prevent the next million heart attacks & strokes with his startup, Miga Health.

Some stats: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. 80% of heart attacks and strokes are preventable. A heart attack or stroke happens every 20 seconds. Over $500B is spent on cardiovascular care in the US alone.

Miga Health is focused on improving care delivery and driving better patient outcomes through their mobile app and telehealth clinic.

In this episode, Akkshay chats with Jarrad about strategies, tactics, and hacks that he's used to build his startup. They discuss product, distribution, fundraising, and much more. Here are some of the questions we cover:

• Product: What was your process for building conviction in this problem before pursuing it?
• Distribution: What’s your current acquisition strategy?
• Fundraising: What is 1 unconventional fundraising tip that you have for founders? Something unique that you think other founders on the pod may not have already said.

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Host: Akkshay Khoslaa

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