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The Feminist Innovation Lens is a way of building technology that starts with the people most often discounted. It treats women, and everyone the system has learned to overlook, as co-authors of innovation rather than edge cases to patch later.

Dr. Goel spent years in interventional and geriatric psychiatry before turning her own frustrations with the system into an AI platform designed by a clinician, for clinicians. What follows is our conversation about the moment that started it all, the guardrails she refused to compromise on, and what she's still trying to get right.

"My story didn't exist in isolation," she said. "It's the story and experience of millions of young people who feel anxious, depressed, lonely, and scared because of the online world they have been thrown into."