
After helping take Hims & Hers public, Joe Spector could have enjoyed the calm. Instead, a corgi, an alarming vet bill and a fondness for early-stage chaos pulled him back to zero.
Ellen DaSilva is the founder and CEO of Summer Health, a New York-based pediatric telehealth company that lets parents text a pediatrician and get an answer in under 15 minutes, 24/7. A mother of three, she built the company after living the gap herself: long waits, short visits, and a pile of unanswered questions. Before founding Summer Health in 2022, she was the eighth employee at Hims & Hers, led business operations at Twitter as revenue scaled from $100M to $2B, and worked on more than $10B of IPOs at Barclays. She is an HBS MBA, a Sequoia Scout, and co-author of the startup business-development book 'Pitching & Closing.'