Darius Wey of HealthEngine - Product design genius, entrepreneur and self proclaimed nerd - Episode 17
- Ask Alyka
- Digital Marketing
21 Nov 2017
Darius Wey co-founded HealthEngine, an online platform that helps patients book health appointments 24/7 by connecting them with qualified practitioners.
HealthEngine is Perth’s most celebrated tech startup with over 2 million monthly visitors, more than 150 employees and is venture backed by a large Silicon valley investor. Darius built the original HealthEngine booking system over one Christmas and the platform has been going strong ever since.
Although he won’t say it, Darius is a genius and is passionate about developing awesome software products. He has even created a meetup community called Product Tank Perth, which we will link below.
What we talk about:
- While studying Medicine, you decided to change your degree. Why?
- When did you come on board with HealthEngine?
- Why did you come on board with HealthEngine?
- How did you feel at the start? Scared? Excited? Stressed?
- I heard that you single handedly developed the first generation HealthEngine app over Christmas. Is this true?
- When you first started, how did you guys generate customers?
- What was your biggest failure as a business or as co-founder of the business?
- What was your biggest success as a business or as co-founder of the business??
- Why do most startups fail? What are they top 1 or 2 reasons?
- Why did you guys do so well?
- What do you think are the biggest keys to success for you as technology expert or business person? Coding ability? Able to see tech trends? Leadership ability? Negotiation ability? etc
- What are your key strengths? E.g. coding? understanding technology? people skills? sales? etc
- How did you train these strengths? (Appreciate if you can be specific)
- What are books do you recommend people read?
- What idols do you look up to?
- If someone wants to create a tech product, where do they start?
- What is the future of HealthEngine over the next 1, 3, 5 years?
- Tell us about any side apps that you have created that earn you money?
- What is the project you are most excited about right now?
You can check our Darius’s product tank group here:
www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Perth…=QFTyYRfBpfZ9xLAc
Some of the books Darius recommends
- Hooked by Nir Eyal (His favourite to date)
- Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg
- Sprint by Jake Knapp
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown