Winners Welcome Podcast, Episode 3 with Kate Ryder, Founder and CEO of Maven Clinic.

When Kate Ryder started Maven, women’s and family health was not the category it is today. There were no unicorns in the space, no clear playbook for building a virtual clinic at scale, and very little appetite from the broader market for what she was setting out to do.

On the third episode of the Winners Welcome Podcast, Kate Ryder joins us to talk about building Maven Clinic into the defining company in women’s and family health. What started as a bet on a market most investors overlooked is now a $1.7B business reaching more than 28 million members globally, with over 2,000 enterprise partners across 175+ countries supporting fertility, maternity, pediatrics, and menopause care. Kate’s path into founding is part of what makes the conversation different. She came up as a journalist and early-stage investor before starting Maven, and that background still shows up in how she leads, how she communicates, and how she thinks about the long game.

The conversation moves through the questions that actually shape a company of this scale. Kate is candid about why timing mattered so much for Maven, what it really takes to keep growing as a CEO while the company grows around you, and how the role shifts as you scale from a small startup to more than 650 employees. She talks about resilience and storytelling as core founder skills, how Maven is using AI across care delivery, operations, and patient outcomes, and what value-based care actually means for the future of healthcare. She closes with the three things she would change about the system, her advice for young founders, and a clear-eyed view of what she wants Maven’s legacy to be.

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The Winners Welcome Podcast brings elite founders and top investors into thoughtful conversations on pushing past possible, sharing the conviction, standards, and lessons behind building generational companies.

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