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How family tragedies led this Hong Kong entrepreneur to start her own mental health app

On starting her business

“This hot potato had fallen in my lap and I decided to make fries with it. And those fries were Neurum Health. That was how Neurum Health was born. We had set out to find a way where we can use AI to essentially personalise our mind and lifestyle care journey.”

On the unexpected parts of entrepreneurship

“I was freshly engaged and [my investors] had seen my engagement ring. They congratulated me, [but] then wanted to renegotiate the terms. They said our company was overvalued and they would like to slash the valuation by half because, well, essentially they called me an investment risk and wanted me to go back and impose my family-planning plans on top of [our] financial model.”

On founder mental health

“My best friend describes me as a taco. But a blanket burrito is when you wrap yourself up in a blanket and you make the sauce by crying into it….

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