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Scott Dorsey

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first: 2019-11-22
most recent: 2019-11-22
sittings or episodes: 1
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“So I was not sure what I wanted to do. So I was interviewing on the West Coast. I was interviewing on the East Coast. I had lots of opportunities outside Indy, and I was approached by High Alpha, which was founded by Scott Dorsey, who is the founder, one of the founders and CEO of Exact Target. And he founded Hay Alpha, which is a venture studio to”
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“Since I was young. So I started out, and this is relevant to Anvil, is I ended up with an internship with international paper company to implement an inventory control software system. So I wore steel-toed shoes, hard hat, went down into the plant every day to implement a software program. I had no idea what I was doing, and I was horrible and I loved every minute of it. So I finished my degree and ended up going straight to Dallas and have worked in software really ever since, worked for some name brands. I worked for Match.com, which was fantastic. Right before moving to Indiana, moved for my ex-husband's family and to join a company called A Primo. And a Primo during my interview was bought by Teradata, which was super fun. And then after Teradata, I went to Angie's list. And Angie's list was another IAC acquisition putting that together with Home Advisor and spinning that out. So for me,”
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“Hi, Robin Fleming. So I hail from Arkansas, grew up there, went to Washtaw Baptist University, where I focused on journalism and art. About midway through school, I started realizing that I really had a passion for computer science. And I'm kind of the poster child of that young woman in a STEM field who almost didn't get in the STEM field.”
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“Just kind of three components we want to let the company know what they have. So believe it or not, companies really don't have a way to inventory what they have, so they buy multiple subscriptions and things like that. So we track spend. We also measure utilization because ultimately you want your employees to be more productive, get the most out of those tools, so we help with that.”
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“Xyla's an enterprise SaaS company, software as a service, and we actually help ironically companies manage all of their software subscriptions. Companies buy so much, they have no idea what they have, they have no idea how to measure value. And so we work with the largest companies in the world.”
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“Yeah, absolutely. I think you could credit probably a dozen or so companies that have started since Exact Target coming from alumni. We joke, we call ours the exact target mafia. You know, there's the PayPal Mafia”
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“I started a company in college. I almost left. I went to Indiana University and I went to the business school and typically what happens, you graduate from a university like Indiana, you go into big consulting or you go into a Fortune 500. I was lucky enough to meet a couple of people that were starting a company in college. So we had the startup called Streetside Investor. It ended up not going anywhere, but it was actually during the dot-com kind of boom and bust. And I just loved it. I loved working in a small environment. We could make change. We could build a product very quickly. And so when I left IU, I ended up going to Indianapolis and living in an investor's guest house who happened to invest in Xactarget, and that got my start.”
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“I started my career with a company called Exact Target shortly after college. And I've spent the last 16 years in SAS and focused on enterprise, SaaS technology. I started the company, I actually partnered up with Scott Dorsey, who is the founder of Exact Target to start Xilo, which is my company today. Growing up in Indiana, my father was an entrepreneur. He had a small auto shop. So I kind of knew I always wanted to start a company. So that was part of the.”
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“And so now I work at the Indiana office of Verta Health, and Verda is based in San Francisco, but actually Verta has a really strong commitment to the state of Indiana because this is where our clinical trial was. And this is where a number of our first customer base was. And so... Verda is an online specialty clinic. We are in the business of reversing type 2 diabetes without medications or services.”
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“Nutrition intervention, looking at carbohydrate restrictions specifically for type 2 diabetes. And we are three and a half years into our five-year trial. And pretty soon after I realized Steve and his company, Verta Health, which he founded with one of his research partners, Dr. Jeff Volick from Ohio State University and SAMI Eichnen. They had the answer to what we had been searching for, which was everyone at IU saying, Sarah, this is great, how do you scale it? And tech comes into that. Tech comes into. And tech is how you scale it. And I was so impressed that I joined the company”
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“And it was like, what? Where does this happen? Where is this in the guidelines? You know, we get people off of hundreds of units of insulin. I mean, unheard of by what I knew. And so I got angry, really. And sometimes anger can actually be productive entrepreneurship. It can be very productive. It depends on what you do with the anger. And so I decided I was going to contribute to the research because it wasn't fair that only the people who are coming to our clinic were able to get this opportunity to do true disease reversal. And we did a small pilot study and then I was fortunate enough to meet Dr. Steve Finney at a obesity conference, actually, where we were both speaking. And we went out to dinner that night. I told him I was looking for funding for a larger trial. He said, I am just started a company. We're looking to do a trial. And so over dinner, we basically planned the longest and largest ever.”
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“You know, everything, you know, write a script for this, and we don't have time to really get back in and say, you know, what is in the literature on this stuff? Just we go with what we're taught. And I was really tasked with solving the unsolvable problem, right? What do we do about obesity? And so when I had the opportunity to spend this time, I realized that what I had been telling people for at that point close to 20 years, eat a low-fat diet. That's what you need to do. Eat a low-fat diet. It'll fix everything. There was actually no evidence for it. It was what I was taught, but was it what was scientifically proven? Not at all. And so when the clinic opened, I opened it as a low carbohydrate clinic and we pivoted almost immediately in what we were doing. Instead of obesity as our primary goal, we were working with diabetes because what was happening when people restricted carbohydrates is their diabetes was going away.”
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“Yeah, thank you. So my journey is an interesting one because I am a physician. That was my early career. And before that, actually, I was an exercise physiologist. And so my background was in preventative medicine. And I wound up in internal medicine as a chosen course and then practiced primary care for almost 10 years. And it was a tough time. I would come home every night and say to my husband, I'm not sure if I can make it to retirement. And I felt like a drug dealer. That's all we did. You know, we were rushed through patients and all I saw was people continuing to get worse. So I was really fortunate in that Indiana University Health where I worked, they asked me to start an obesity program. And I had an opportunity to spend almost a year with literally my nose in the literature, which is something that is not afforded to most physicians because we just get so busy and then, you know, you just go with what you need scripts for scripts for this.”
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“So lean on in. We're in a station here. WVA radio station. Yeah, exactly. And so we're sharing microphones. And we don't often do a lot of group shows, but it's really interesting. I've done a couple on certain topics. I want you guys each to sort of explain how you got your start. Why don't we start with you, Sarah, and then go to Eric and then Robin. Go ahead.”
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“And things like that. So, we've talked about the concept a lot, but what we want to talk about is an issue that I have talked about is that talent is everywhere, it's opportunity is not, and that we have to really think really hard in the next age where innovation is coming from and what industry, including ag tech, including health tech, including all kinds of things. And a lot of things, I do do a lot of Silicon Valley interviews. I do a lot in New York and now in DC because of regulatory issues. But now it's really important if we're going to move into the next stage and think about jobs and everything else to find out where it's coming from. So when I found out we'd be coming here, I decided to be really enlightening to talk to entrepreneurs here in Indiana to learn about how they feel about the state of innovation of the U.S. And so Erica found three great guests who work here. So let's meet them now. First is Sarah Hallberg, and she's the medical director of Verta Health, and her work on no surgery, no medication treatments for diabetes has had”
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“Payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 or $12 month plan required, $15 per month equivalent taxes and fees Initial plant home only greater than 50GB is busy. C terms. Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, editor at large of Recode. You may know me as someone who loves the Midwest because all the jokes are corny, but in my spare time I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Reco Deco, a podcast about power change and the people you need to know around the tech industry. We're part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today, I'm in Valpariso, Indiana, with my executive producer, Eric Anderson. Hey, Erica, explain why I'm Indiana. Hey, Carol.”
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