Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa

Hello everyone and welcome to How I Built This Fellows Edition. So as a lot of you know, in normal years we have a How I Built This conference and summit, and in recent years we've been doing it in San Francisco. Well this year we're going virtual, but one thing that hasn't changed is our How I Built This Fellows program. Every year, we invite a group of entrepreneurs to become How I Built This Fellows. And this year, we selected 10 fellows to participate in a pitch competition where the winner will receive a$50,000 grant. So for the past week, we've been introducing some of these fellows here on the podcast and getting to know them a little bit better. And today's fellows focused on making their communities healthier and more connected.

Mark Atlin is co-founder of ZapCare. He wants to provide mobile medical services like eye exams, dialysis, cardiology, to members of tribal nations, and he wants to start with his own nation. Tribal nations often experience delays in healthcare delivery, which is a problem that became more obvious in the past year. COVID just completely ravaged tribal nations and specifically the Navajo nation where I'm from. Uh there's about three hundred and twenty thousand Navajo's on the reservation. If you can understand this, forty three percent don't have access to running water electricity in their homes.

So through Covet, how are you supposed to wash your hands? Uh in the winter, I how are you supposed to stay warm? Just to give you a quick statistic guy. Uh the United States has about a nine point four percent uh diabetes rate. And the Navajo Nation has a Eighty one.

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