Talk to Your Pharmacist

In this episode, our guest is Derek Borkowski, PharmD, who is a pharmacist, software engineer, and founder of the Pyrls.com website and mobile app. He is a 2018 Doctor of Pharmacy graduate from the University of Minnesota. Derek's past experience includes work in community pharmacy, digital health, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Pyrls.com is a top drugs education and reference tool for clinicians and student-clinicians. Other company products include RxGrad.com and Pharmacist.dev Software developer of Pyrls.com, a top drugs education and reference tool for clinicians and student-clinicians. Other company products include RxGrad.com and Pharmacist.dev

Topics covered:
- What is Pyrls? Why did you create it?
- Tell us about Y Combinator?
- pathways to technology careers
- learning programming/technology skills as a pharmacist how to, what's useful, etc
- starting and growing an internet business - bootstrapping perspective (did this for the first 1.5 years of pyrls) or taking venture capital perspective (more recently)

Guest - Derek Borkowski, PharmD
Founder, CEO - Pyrls (YC W22)

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA
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What is Talk to Your Pharmacist?

We're dispensing stories of success from across the continuum of care.

Talk to Your Pharmacist is a podcast for pharmacists, student pharmacists, and others across the country to hear from industry leaders about their leadership stories and current healthcare topics. The Talk to Your Pharmacist podcast was founded and hosted by pharmacist, Dr. Hillary Blackburn.