Entrepreneurship and Representation in Healthcare Technology with Gulé Sheikh

Today we speak with developer turned health-tech founder Gulé Sheikh. We discuss her innovations and entrepreneurship at a leading tele-health company, her experience in technology, and the importance of representation. In the early 20th century, women led computer programming and made huge contributions to the field. From Ada Lovelace’s algorithm and Grace Hopper’s pioneering work on COBOL to World War II codebreaking at Bletchley Park and Katherine Johnson’s calculations critical to NASA spaceflights. Yet, when Gulé started her career 23 years ago, she was one of only 5 women in a class of 300 Computer Programming graduates. Gulé went on to found a successful health-tech company which she scaled 1000% and sold in 2019 after 7 years of running it. Join us as Gulé reflects on her experience in the tech industry.About Gulé SheikhGulé Sheikh is a technologist by trade and former executive that founded the health-tech company eazyScripts, a top telemedicine software provider focused on the virtual care space. She developed the only proprietary algorithm for price transparency at the point of care in the US.  She was interviewed by Melinda Gates as one of the few health-tech startup owners that raised over $2MM in the Midwest. Gulé is a passionate technologist with 22+ years in IT, and is now the Senior Strategic Success Manager in Healthcare at Salesforce.LinksGulé Sheikh | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulesheikh/Gulé Sheikh | Twitter:https://twitter.com/gulesheikheazyScripts:https://www.eazyscripts.com/Women in Computing | Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computingQualio website:https://www.qualio.com/Previous episodes:https://www.qualio.com/from-lab-to-launch-podcastApply to be on the show:https://forms.gle/uUH2YtCFxJHrVGeL8Music by keldez Qualio website:https://www.qualio.com/Previous episodes:https://www.qualio.com/from-lab-to-launch-podcastApply to be on the show:https://forms.gle/uUH2YtCFxJHrVGeL8Music by keldez