Botco.ai CEO Rebecca Clyde Takes on Entrepreneurship, Technology and Workplace Challenges
The creator of Botco.ai, Rebecca Clyde thought she would be a diplomat or a ballerina when she grew up. Little did she know, she would create an AI tech to help patients navigate the medical office experience with greater ease.
Growing up, Clyde was born in Costa Rica, and lived in Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, and Argentina. At the age of 20 she moved to the US to study. After University, she worked at Intel in marketing and product launching, all at the beginning of the tech boom in the late 90’s early 2000’s.
Now she is the CEO and Founder of Botco.ai, a conversational platform that helps patients and providers communicate with each other using automation. “We make it as easy to connect with your provider as it is to text a friend.” She created the program after having to deal with the frustration of trying to schedule appointments for her three children, husband and herself. The frustration of having to wait on hold for 30 mins to speak to someone and being sent round and round the phone system sparked the idea for the platform.
Botco.ai is a chat system that allows anyone to chat and instantly get answers for scheduling and insurance. They are able to automate many of the questions that come in over and over without a person always needing to be there to respond. An employee can take over for any of the high equity requests. It works to connect all the distances of what the consumer needs and what the provider can give at that exact moment.
Work life balance for her is truly integrating her children in all that she does. She involves them in her business. She has found that her children are incredibly honest with her and her work. They help keep her grounded while she is teaching them new skills. They are also wonderful to bounce ideas off of and bring them along to everything she can with her work.
Challenges she has faced has been seeing the under appreciation of women in the workforce but she brushes them off and moves on. Advice she would give to women in tech and entrepreneurship is “Think really hard about their dedication to the idea. One of the biggest things about entrepreneurship and starting a company, especially in technology, is how challenging it really is and how many hurdles we are going to face everyday. It’s beyond what I could have imagined. I couldn’t even have conceived of half of the challenges that I have had to come across. I think it is believing in your idea and having so much commitment to it and what you are doing. Every morning it’s going to be a battle. You have to be willing to grind at it.”
She believes that getting more girls involved in the STEM fields is so important to start early. “We have to intercept girls when they are pre-pubescent, before puberty, and they get all worried about social, and what do people think. That 3rd, 4th, 5th grade is so important for girls to be validated, to be encouraged to do these things.”
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