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You know, being a startup is about just finding a business model. That's what you're doing. And I think that as a software company, your roadmap needs to be as closely linked to that business

model as possible. You really can't necessarily separate the business model you're trying

to find as a startup, right? How are you going to get paid from the features you need that

people will pay for.

My name is Adrian Bulger, and I'm the founder and CTO at BlockHealth.

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical

moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today how Adrian Bolger set out to solve the bureaucracy

in credentialing health care professionals using the blockchain.

All this and more on Code Story.

Adrian Bolger grew up in the Midwest and quickly moved up to Boston to attend MIT.

She's a lover of running and was a Jiu-Jitsu martial arts coach at the

Institute. Growing up, she loved art and math and found her way into computer science, trying to

find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar and tinkered in robotics and medical devices,

and eventually she founded Block Health,

which aims to solve health care credentialing and the pains associated with moving yourself,

your practice, or even working in another state. I sat down with Jared, my co-founder,

what is it going to take to solve this problem?

Well, one of the problems in credentialing is there's a lot of duplication, there's a lot of data silos,

and no one trusts other people's data.

So we decided to use some technology from Ethereum, blockchain, open source distributed ledger,

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