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Zoë Barry is a serial entrepreneur, Mentor in Residence with Techstars, and angel investor. Currently, Zoë is the Founder and CEO of Zingeroo, her second venture-backed tech startup. Zingeroo makes stock trading competitive, social, and educational and has raised $11.5M to date. The Zingeroo trading app is available for download in the iOS store.Zoë began her career on Wall Street, working for the hedge fund Dawson Capital. She was inspired to found her first company in 2012, ZappRx, when a family member was diagnosed with a severe condition that required specialized therapy. ZappRx was best described as the “Amazon Prime for $100K/year specialty medication.” As a sole- founder, Barry raised over $42M for ZappRx, before the company was acquired by Allscripts, in June of 2019.When she isn't busy building her company, Zoë enjoys mentoring first-time founders. She has invested in over 20 startups to-date. Zoë was named as one of Inc. Magazine's 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30, in 2015; Boston Business Journal's 40 under 40, in 2015; and Medtech Boston's 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators, in 2016. In her “spare time”, Zoë is an amateur race car driver and avid skier.In this episode of How To Trade It, Zoe talks about the switch to more transparent trading for the sake of sharing data with other traders. You don't want to miss it!Zoe's introduction. 0:12How does Zingaroo bring data to retail traders? 2:05Is it common for investors to talk about their wins and losses? 6:28What types of instruments are able to be traded on the platform? 10:30What other resources and benefits do you offer for traders? 12:04Retail investors don't have their finger on the pulse. 13:48What's the biggest problem with the current market. 18:00How did you get started with your platform? 20:50Why it's a great time to be launching a platform. 24:50Resources & People MentionedQuiver QuantitativeSpotGammaConnect with Zoe BarryWebsite: https://zingeroo.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZoeBarryCEOLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoebarry/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoebarryceo/Support the show
This week on Inclusive Collective, startup advisor and advocate, Abid Siddiqui, chats with Nadia & Rob about accelerator and incubator programs designed for founders, how the government strives to be forward thinking in the entrepreneurial space and his observations on inclusion in the startup ecosystem. About Abid: Abid has over 15 years of experience working across finance, commercial strategy and operations, and product management. He currently serves as a strategic advisor to the innovation division at the Biomedical Research & Development Authority (BARDA), which is part of the US federal government's pandemic and emergency response team. In this role he is responsible for advising how the organization builds and funds early-stage Biotech and Digital Health companies that will shape the future of healthcare delivery and emergency response. Prior to working with the BARDA team, Abid spent the early part of his career working in corporate finance at organizations such as KPMG and Baker & McKenzie. He subsequently went on to join as the first employee at a technology startup called Bytecubed where he was responsible for building out and leading the finance and business operations functions for the company. ByteCubed was later acquired by Intellibridge. After exiting Bytecubed, Abid went on to lead the design and launch of a data analytics product at a venture backed digital health startup called ZappRx, which ended up being acquired by AllScripts. Abid holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and an MBA from Babson College. Hosted by Nadia Butt & Rob Hadley Inclusive Collective is a production of Rifelion Media. For more information email us at info@rifelion.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zoë's company started over a sibling rivalry.One Christmas, she was locked in a debate with her brothers about which direction the stock market was headed. To settle the score, she decided to gift them a competitive, social trading experience.Except----there wasn't one.So she built one.Cue Zingeroo, a platform that allows you to compete and track performance on individual trades with your friends or family. You can be a seasoned trader or a new one. Its downloadable from the iOS store. She's raised $8.5M to date.This is Zoe's second venture-backed company. Her first company was also founded because of a pain point. She had a relative with a rare disease and the cost of specialty medication was through the roof. She created an "Amazon of specialty medication." Zoe raised over $42M for ZappRx before the company was acquired by Allscripts in June of 2019.Join me in this incredible conversation with serial entrepreneur Zoe Barry. When she isn't busy building her company, Zoë enjoys mentoring first time founders. She has invested in over 20 startups to date.
Today's guest is serial entrepreneur and influencer, Zoe Barry, who discussed her previous startup company ZappRx, as well as her new startup, Zingeroo. Zoe explains her career path from her first job on Wall Street to starting her first company at 26 years old, for which she raised over $42 million. Tune in for Zoe's insights on starting a company inspired by personal obstacles, how to know when investors are the right fit for your company, and building a valuable social media presence. Subscribe to Ideamix Radio and stay tuned for new episodes every Thursday. On Ideamix Radio we speak with entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, career changers, experts, and enthusiasts for insider tips that help you build the life, business, and career you want. Ideamix is the go-to destination for entrepreneurs to turn their idea into a business. Check out our website at www.theideamix.com. For comments, questions, podcast guest ideas, or sponsorship inquiries, please email info@theideamix.com.
As Zoe Barry watched a seriously ill relative get worse from delayed access to a life-saving drug, she saw an acute problem with the healthcare bureaucracy that needed solving. In her mid 20s, Zoe embraced what she didn't know and threw herself into starting and growing ZappRx. After selling her 1st company, Zoe is on to her second startup while she races cars and helps first time women founders on the side. Hear her fascinating story and invaluable lessons in this episode.Subscribe to The IdeaMix Radio and stay tuned for our weekly episodes. On The IdeaMix Radio we speak with entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, career changers, experts and enthusiasts for insider tips that help you build the life, business, and career you want.The IdeaMix is the go-to destination for entrepreneurs to turn their idea into a business. Check out our website at www.theideamix.com. For comments, questions, podcast guest ideas or sponsorship enquiries, please email info@theideamix.com.
When Zoe Barry was a kid, she had two things she wanted to be when she grew up, either a veterinarian or “someone who writes checks.” She gave the first a shot and ended up settling on the second. Today she is CEO of ZappRx and a shining example of how drive and intellect can overcome adversity. […]
On this episode of #Build, board advisor and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Julia Austin, shares her point of view on what makes a truly great product manager. How does she know? Well years of experience spent as CTO at Digital Ocean and VP of Engineering at VMWare and Akamai.Julia also opens up about her time as a lecturer at Harvard Business School and experience serving as a board advisor to startups including Drift, Wistia, Help Scout, ZappRx and others.Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @maggiecrowley, @drift, @seekingwisdomio and @austinfish.In This Episode:0:09 – Maggie introduces Julia Austin0:40 – Introduction of the two big topics of today’s show: 1. What is a great product manager, 2. How one builds a carrier in production management0:57 – Julia shares how she went from production itself to teaching about it4:23 – Product manager is not a cool CEO position, but it turns ideas into made products and can be very gratifying5:48 – The process of idea to realization in project management that she teaches in Julia’s class8:32 – By taking a product management class one can walk through and gain knowledge about the whole process9:05 – Kinds of people customarily being most successful in product management16:29 – Julia explains what a ‘typical’ product manager looks like20:24 – You don’t have to build the most fancy things all the time21:57 – Sometimes you have to take scary risks23:20 – What makes a great PM is someone who says ‘I know this is the right thing to do,’ and can make the call23:28 – Julia shares advice on how one can get their first PM job26:46 – Advice on how to evaluate the next carrier steps as a PM, and whether to go / remain in a big or a start-up company35:32 – Julia shares some final pieces of advice37:21 – Be willing to take risks38:03 – Don’t be focused on titles, but on what you will actually do
On this episode of #Build, board advisor and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Julia Austin, shares her point of view on what makes a truly great product manager. How does she know? Well years of experience spent as CTO at Digital Ocean and VP of Engineering at VMWare and Akamai.Julia also opens up about her time as a lecturer at Harvard Business School and experience serving as a board advisor to startups including Drift, Wistia, Help Scout, ZappRx and others.Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @maggiecrowley, @drift, @seekingwisdomio and @austinfish.In this episode:0:09 – Maggie introduces Julia Austin0:40 – Introduction of the two big topics of today’s show: 1. What is a great product manager, 2. How one builds a carrier in production management0:57 – Julia shares how she went from production itself to teaching about it4:23 – Product manager is not a cool CEO position, but it turns ideas into made products and can be very gratifying5:48 – The process of idea to realization in project management that she teaches in Julia’s class8:32 – By taking a product management class one can walk through and gain knowledge about the whole process9:05 – Kinds of people customarily being most successful in product management16:29 – Julia explains what a ‘typical’ product manager looks like20:24 – You don’t have to build the most fancy things all the time21:57 – Sometimes you have to take scary risks23:20 – What makes a great PM is someone who says ‘I know this is the right thing to do,’ and can make the call23:28 – Julia shares advice on how one can get their first PM job26:46 – Advice on how to evaluate the next carrier steps as a PM, and whether to go / remain in a big or a start-up company35:32 – Julia shares some final pieces of advice37:21 – Be willing to take risks38:03 – Don’t be focused on titles, but on what you will actually do
The ZappRx digital specialty prescribing platform enables providers to send prescription referrals to specialty pharmacies with legible and more complete information, so pharmacy teams spend less time chasing paperwork and more time helping patients who need life-saving medications. ZOË BARRY FOUNDER AND CEO Zoë Barry is the Founder and CEO of ZappRx, a digital health company focused on modernizing and streamlining the way specialty medications are accessed. Zoë launched her career on Wall Street working at the broker-dealer firm DeMatteo Monness and later the hedge fund Dawson Capital. While on Wall Street, Zoë felt compelled to transition into healthcare, to make a difference in an area where she knew needed improvement. In 2011, she joined athenahealth where she focused on implementing athenaClinicals at provider practices. Throughout her work at athenahealth and in healthcare, Zoë became aware of a major issue with today's prescribing and prior authorization process, particularly related to specialty medications. As such, she decided to leave athenahealth to launch ZappRx in 2012. Today, ZappRx works nationwide with doctors, hospital systems, pharmacies and other tech partners. In addition to ZappRx, Zoë currently advises 2 startups; Remy (NYC) and Metiri (Boston). She is also passionate about mentoring and angel investing in women-led companies including Pixi Cycling, ianacare, Future Fuel and RDMD. Zoë was awarded Inc. Magazine's 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 list in 2015, Boston Business Journal 40 under 40 in 2015 and Medtech Boston's 40 under 40 Heath care Innovator in 2016. Karen Tirozzi brings extensive experience in program management and software application development to users in high-pressure healthcare environments. Having worked start-up & small companies for 15 years, her expertise is in product and program innovation and building the infrastructure, both for her employer and customers, to implement & support programs while ensuring the needs of a demanding customer base are met. Karen's unique background in HIT and clinical social work is the basis for her ability to deliver successful programs in small healthcare services and IT companies. As VP of R&D at Health Leads, Karen leads efforts to make healthcare partner efforts to address patients social needs as tangible, systematic and scalable as possible. Under her leadership, the team developed offerings which include both technology and services, provided by Health Leads or tailored for delivery by clinic staff. As VP of Client Services at PatientKeeper, Karen led the team which grew to implement and support applications for hundreds of hospitals, clinics and physician group practices across the country. Products included charge capture, clinical dashboard, eSignature, and mobility applications. Karen is also a clinical social worker, working for seven years in various clinical settings in Boston area hospitals. Karen holds a master's degree in social work from Simmons College and bachelor's degree from Boston University. Specialties: Designing & building infrastructure for new/start-up companies; Implementation of software/IT; Executive management of critical client accounts; Operational management- Client Services, Sales, IT, Development/QA; Integration; CRM management; HIE, EMR, Business process (re)engineering, healthcare, account management, client services, project management, relationship management, customer support, cross functional team coordination, liaison between technology and business See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Libby Webb discusses how ZappRx is leveraging technology to simplify and automate the way specialty drugs get to patients. Libby is the Senior Vice President, Product of ZappRx, a digital health company offering a prescription and prior authorization platform. In this episode Libby discusses how ZappRx is leveraging technology to simplify and automate the way specialty drugs get to patients. Learn more about pulmonary hypertension at www.phaware365.global. Never miss an episode with the phaware® podcast app. Follow us @phaware on facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube & linkedin Engage for a cure: www.phaware.global/donate #phaware
Zoe Barry launched her career on Wall Street, then later joined athenahealth after her youngest brother was diagnosed with severe epilepsy and needed specialized care and therapy. A desire to make a difference in healthcare inspired her to launched ZappRx.
Lorrie Carr joined ZappRx in April 2016 as Chief Commercial Officer. She has over 20 years' experience in the health care industry – primarily focused in the pharma/biotech and specialty pharmacy industries. Just prior to joining ZappRx, Ms. Carr was the Divisional VP of Enterprise Specialty Sales and Product Management for Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy. Ms. Carr transformed the strategy, operations and deployment of the over 300-person Specialty and Infusion sales teams resulting in consistent double-digit year over year growth for the multi-billion-dollar business. In addition, she created, built and successfully led the product management team which developed and executed on growth strategies for high priority specialty disease areas. Prior to Walgreens, Ms. Carr was the Head of U.S. / Global Market Access for Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Oncology) where she built the first Reimbursement & Market Access team for the company, advised global R&D on access related trial design decisions, led the European patient access strategy, and played a material role in developing pricing, contracting, distribution and patient assistance program strategies for pipeline and marketed products. She started her pharmaceutical career at Schering-Plough (now Merck) where she held various roles in account management, and ultimately, became a senior leader of the US Market Access marketing group. Ms. Carr received her Bachelor's degree from Columbia College and holds her MBA from UMASS Isenberg School of Management. 00:00 Specialty Pharmaceutical Products. 02:30 Inefficiencies in the system. 04:00 The paper-fill process for Patient Prescription/Enrollment with Specialty Pharmacies. 06:30 Enrollment Forms for prescription drugs filled at Specialty Pharmacies. 10:20 The overwhelming cost and administrative overhead for Providers having to keep track of all of these forms. 13:00 How the process changes for Providers with ZappRx 19:00 Getting the drug out to the patient without conflict. 20:00 Double check for patients and Specialty Pharmacy. 22:00 Why ZappRx is collaborative, not competitive. 23:30 ZappRx's work on the Provider side. 24:25 Gathering Data at the front-end of the prescribing process. 25:15 ZappRx's long-term business model. 25:30 Missing Data in the healthcare and pharmacy markets. 27:45 Aggregating data and identifying trends. 28:30 ZappRx's five key focus Disease Areas. 30:00 You can learn more about ZappRx at www.zapprx.com.
Inspired by the problems facing her youngest brother, Zoë Barry founded ZappRx to streamline the process to secure prescription meds, especially for chronically ill patients who need the meds most.
Zoe Barry is the Founder of ZappRx, a mobile technology company whose mission it is to revolutionize the prescription process. Their technology connects the patient, physician and pharmacist with a mobile platform that makes the prescription process a heck of a lot easier and user friendly. She has a great story about how she took her idea and built it into a solid company who secured $1 million in funding in 2013.
On this episode of #Build, board advisor and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Julia Austin, shares her point of view on what makes a truly great product manager. How does she know? Well years of experience spent as CTO at Digital Ocean and VP of Engineering at VMWare and Akamai. Julia also opens up about her time as a lecturer at Harvard Business School and experience serving as a board advisor to startups including Drift, Wistia, Help Scout, ZappRx and others. Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @maggiecrowley, @drift, @seekingwisdomio and @austinfish. In This Episode: 0:09 – Maggie introduces Julia Austin 0:40 – Introduction of the two big topics of today’s show: 1. What is a great product manager, 2. How one builds a carrier in production management 0:57 – Julia shares how she went from production itself to teaching about it 4:23 – Product manager is not a cool CEO position, but it turns ideas into made products and can be very gratifying 5:48 – The process of idea to realization in project management that she teaches in Julia’s class 8:32 – By taking a product management class one can walk through and gain knowledge about the whole process 9:05 – Kinds of people customarily being most successful in product management 16:29 – Julia explains what a ‘typical’ product manager looks like 20:24 – You don’t have to build the most fancy things all the time 21:57 – Sometimes you have to take scary risks 23:20 – What makes a great PM is someone who says ‘I know this is the right thing to do,’ and can make the call 23:28 – Julia shares advice on how one can get their first PM job 26:46 – Advice on how to evaluate the next carrier steps as a PM, and whether to go / remain in a big or a start-up company 35:32 – Julia shares some final pieces of advice 37:21 – Be willing to take risks 38:03 – Don’t be focused on titles, but on what you will actually do