{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Startup Junkies Podcast","title":"This Founder Can Read Your Vitals From a Phone Call with Nyamitse-Calvin Mihanda","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ec24def0\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1280,"description":"Most founders obsess over their product. The real skill is knowing which problem to fall in love with instead.\n\nIn this entrepreneur interview, Nyamitse-Calvin Mihanda — founder of Vital Audio and a Techstars and Fuel Accelerator alum — shares how his company extracts heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure from ordinary conversation, why he walked away from a \"perfect\" product mindset, and how his path from hospital billing collector to healthcare founder shaped the way he builds teams today.\nWhether you're building your first startup or trying to close the access-to-care gap in your own community, this conversation will change how you think about resilience, timing, and what it actually takes to launch.\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nHow signal processing and machine learning pull vital signs straight from a voice recording\nWhy clinical partnerships with NYU Langone and Mayo Clinic came before scale, not after\nThe \"fall in love with the problem, not the product\" principle that keeps founders from chasing dead ends\nWhy soft skills — not technical skills — are the hardest thing to teach a team\nHow rural and underserved communities stand to benefit most from voice-based vital tracking\n⏱️ Chapters:\n\n0:53 Welcome to the Startup Junkies Podcast\n1:16 How Vital Audio Reads Vitals From Your Voice\n2:21 The Science Behind Extracting Vitals From Speech\n3:09 Landing Clinical Partners: NYU Langone, Mayo Clinic & More\n4:16 From Hospital Billing to Healthcare Entrepreneur\n6:13 Techstars vs. The Fuel Accelerator: What's Different\n8:55 An Immigrant's Resilience: Lessons From Tanzania to NYC\n11:03 Why Soft Skills Matter More Than Technical Skills\n12:25 The Best Advice: Fall In Love With The Problem\n14:18 Overcoming Fear When You Start a Company\n14:47 What Nyamitse-Calvin Mihanda Loves About the Arkansas Ecosystem\n17:06 Closing the Rural Healthcare Access Gap\n19:47 Where to Find Nyamitse-Calvin & Vital Audio\n\n\n🎙️ New founder stories every week — subscribe so you don't miss one.\n🔗...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VIqyFnVoemaY16I1CQ_9OtsZkjBwg6MwfUeTfBb7LPw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMTg0/ODVhOTk1ZmFiOTQ2/MWM3YTk4MTcxOTg3/NmY5Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}