00:00She had a very interesting announcement on her departure from OpenAI and she's really honest
00:04about this seven-year battle with a chronic condition called POTS. It basically kind of
00:08means like you have brain fog when you stand up, you have elevated heart rate and you can pass out
00:13and you can have nausea, headaches, so it's a really debilitating disease. She was unable to
00:17be continuing her role. She was reporting to Sam Altman like very high up overseeing different
00:22applications and AGI deployment was her title. So she was like, I can't do it. And that really
00:26stuck out to me because I think it's hard for scrutinized people to be honest about their
00:30health. She was so open about it. My cousin actually has POTS and it's been very devastating
00:34to see that. She's been in and out of school since seventh grade and it's like totally taken
00:38over her life. I reached out to Fiji and I told her about my cousin and I was like, do
00:42people
00:42who have POTS actually have reason to believe AI could solve these types of diseases? She
00:47responded and said, yes, I created a company that's going to use AI to hopefully do that.
00:51You said how difficult it is for highly scrutinized people to be transparent about illness, which
00:57is often conflated with weakness. I think it's even tougher for female leaders and female
01:03leaders in the very male dominated tech and AI space to speak about these things.
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