An Interview with Jo Aggarwal, Co-inventor of Wysa
“Our mission is to make the world mentally resilient, it isn’t to cure depression—it isn’t to cure a mental illness. We’re out there to make sure that nobody is completely alone.”
“Our mission is to make the world mentally resilient, it isn’t to cure depression—it isn’t to cure a mental illness. We’re out there to make sure that nobody is completely alone.”
“Everything about [Obama’s] campaign from beginning to end—the culture, the historic nature of it—was secondary; it was just an unbelievable team effort, and he was an extraordinary candidate.”
“We’ve got to have leaders who will not give in to the temptation to exacerbate and then capitalize on those divisions for political purposes.”
“When I jumped off the cliff all by myself in July 2016, there was no MeToo hashtag or Time’s Up. It was just me alone taking on an incredibly powerful man.”
“People are driven by talk, narratives, stories. And they don’t look at data independently; they don’t. Most people. They just listen to ‘What’s the story now.'”
“I’m probably one the few professors, authors in the country who’s pointing out [that] there’s going to be a convergence of cyber weapons and nuclear weapons.”
“For me, it is improving services, making the city more attractive to investors, young couples, families, and visitors.”
“While everyone else is talking about the hurricane and rebuilding, there’s an underlying crisis.”