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Akarsh Sanghi
Akarsh Sanghi is an engineer & designer born and brought up in New Delhi, India. Previously he was leading the Growth & Card product teams at N26 Bank in Berlin until August 2019. Having joined the N26 team in the early days, he was responsible for the growth of the product across European & US markets. He also helped set up a new product and engineering hub for N26 in Barcelona and led the product teams to launch N26 You & N26 Metal. Before that he worked on special projects at The Studio - a new kind of an innovation studio set up in collaboration with IDEO & Zalando in Berlin. He holds a Master's degree from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. In early 2020 he co-founded his own company with Udit Gupta and raised initial seed capital from Y Combinator.
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Brains Byte Back interviews startups, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing yourself for the new information age, join us every Friday. Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.
In this episode of Brains Byte Back, we welcome 20-year-old inventor and Yale student David Fleming, the creator of Releevum, a groundbreaking self-serve headache relief device. David shares his inspiring journey of overcoming debilitating migraines, his early prototypes at age 11, and his relentless pursuit of innovation that led to over 100 iterations of his product.
As a two-time competitor on American Ninja Warrior, David discusses how his perseverance and passion fueled his entrepreneurial journey, turning a personal struggle into a device designed to help millions. We explore his crowdfunding success, research process, and his strategy to bring Releevum to market through partnerships with chiropractors and connecting with those finding relief with his product.
This episode is a deep dive into the intersection of health tech, innovation, and resilience, offering listeners a glimpse into the mind of a young inventor changing lives one prototype at a time.
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