S03E22: On Call with Intellect CEO Theodoric Chew on hyperlocalization of mental health in Asia, end-user experiences for businesses, and the Y Combinator experience

On Call with Insignia Ventures

In this episode, we have Theodoric Chew, CEO and founder of mental health company Intellect, who’s become somewhat a regular of the show. He went on our podcast earlier this year in January, and had a pretty interesting conversation with Samir, our principal, and then we had a Clubhouse session with him and a couple of our other founders, which is also on our podcast.

Even if it's our third conversation with him already this year, there’s still a lot to unpack as Intellect has been up to a lot lately. Since our first round with them we've since doubled down in their latest round following their graduation from the Y Combinator program Summer 2021 cohort. They've also launched and fully rolled out their digital therapy program for enterprise, now used by more than 20 Fortune 500 companies and tech giants, including ShopBack and Carousell, and their app, which at the time in January was already downloaded or used by a million people in the first six months since launch, it’s now doubled to more than 2.5 million users.

Transcript

Timestamps

00:26 Re-introducing Intellect's Theodoric Chew!

01:27 The YC Experience: Biggest Learnings, Challenges, and Advice for Founders;

05:44 B2C Business: Intellect’s top-rated consumer app as a growth channel for their B2B core business, and learnings from reading customer reviews;

09:40 B2B Business: Driving adoption through hyper localization and delivering impact for multinational organizations;

14:55 The science behind Intellect: Scaling programs with on par efficacy to face-to-face intervention;

16:51 Navigating the nuances and increasing competition of being a global mental health care company;

19:55 Updating January 2021’s predictions on the future of mental health care and the role of Intellect;

21:58 Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

Theodoric Chew is a serial entrepreneur and startup leader. Prior to founding Intellect, he was with Entrepreneur First where he led marketing and growth, and before this, he was with Rakuten as well, after they acquired, the startup Voyagin. The first startup he founded was a digital media platform existisgreat.com which was acquired two years later.

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Tags: startup, Southeast Asia, founder, entrepreneurship, business, technology

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