{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Start School Sessions","title":"Start School Session: Nursa Founder & CEO Curtis Anderson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2539,"description":"Curtis Anderson never planned to build a healthcare marketplace.\nHe started by buying a traditional nurse staffing agency and quickly realized the business itself was the problem. Too many middlemen. Too much friction. Too many shifts going unfilled. Instead of optimizing the old system, Curtis decided to replace it.\nThat decision became Nursa, a technology platform that directly connects healthcare facilities with qualified nurses and caregivers. \nToday, Nursa serves more than 5,500 healthcare facilities nationwide through a network of more than 400,000 clinicians, helping solve one of healthcare's biggest workforce challenges.\nIn this Start School conversation, Nursa Founder and CEO Curtis Anderson joins Silicon Slopes CEO Clint Betts to discuss building marketplace businesses, leading through uncertainty, and why AI is creating one of the biggest entrepreneurial opportunities in history.\nThey discuss:\n• Why Curtis bought a staffing agency before building Nursa\n• How marketplace businesses solve problems traditional software cannot\n• What founders can learn from Airbnb's early strategy\n• How Nursa scaled during the COVID-19 pandemic\n• The three competitive advantages every AI company needs\n• Why product always beats marketing\n• How founders should think about regulation in highly regulated industries\n• The challenges of building and scaling two-sided marketplaces\n• Why execution has never mattered more in the age of AI\n• Leadership lessons from George Washington and Jesus Christ\n00:00 Introduction\n02:05 Why Curtis Anderson bought a nurse staffing agency\n06:40 Building a marketplace instead of an agency\n11:15 Launching Nursa during COVID-19\n16:45 How AI is transforming marketplace businesses\n22:00 Navigating regulation as a startup\n27:10 Solving cash flow and scaling a healthcare marketplace\n32:20 Using AI to expand into nursing education\n36:30 The cold start problem and building network effects\n39:20 Expanding beyond nurses and the future of Nursa\n40:45...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KUYllbBouZDsp2Y64E3HnbhZ5Nj7-mH90E-CQwqaYSw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzQz/NTMyMTUxNDcxOWYx/OGY2ZjY3YzVjNTgw/OGU0Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}