Product Thinking at Headspace - #13

Lessons from a MindTech startup worth over $3 billion:

⁠Clare Kennedy Purvis⁠ is a Stanford-trained clinical psychologist who has applied her understanding of the mind to building digital mental health interventions all throughout her career, including as the:

• VP of Clinical Product & Content Development at Headspace

• Clinical Product Lead in the Mental Health Centre of Excellence at Google

• Head of Clinic Product at Lantern

• Chief Product Officer at Mindcure

Clare is also the Founder of ⁠WELL⁠ - a business leadership community for women clinicians and scientists in digital health.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Headspace relieves acute distress (painkiller effect) and then guides users towards a long-term preventative approach (vitamin effect)

• Aligning value-based outcomes with payment models

• Clare’s bold bet on the next opportunity for innovation in MindTech⁠

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MindTech Matrix:

See where Headspace fits into the ⁠MindTech Matrix⁠ - the first map of mental health technology startups organised by the problem they’re solving and the solution they’re building, in line with the problem-driven innovation models for emerging technologies.

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