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Tenay Benes

Sep 27, 2026

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What is the care we need trying to solve, and what is the solution you are building?
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The care we need started as a what if when I was navigating my own complex illness healing journey.
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I am a retired army intelligence officer.
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I experienced PTSD and medical injury in Iraq and I was medically evacuated in 2007 and by 2014 my body shut down.
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I had chronic fatigue syndrome.
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I did everything my doctors were telling me to do and I got worse every time I listened to them.
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And having a biology degree from Johns Hopkins undergrad and having a master's of business administration being an intelligence officer, I knew that I could find information and I could find the solution to my problem if I searched diligently enough.

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When you started building The Care We Need, what was the hardest thing to translate from your lived experience into the product? The complexity of

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