Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Ellen DaSilva (MBA 2017), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship.



Ellen DaSilva is the Founder and CEO of Summer Health. Summer Health is a message-based pediatric care service designed to handle all of your child's primary and urgent care needs 24/7 nationwide. You can learn more at www.summerhealth.com.

Ellen was previously the Head of Business Development at hims&hers, focusing on strategic partnerships and growing the business. She is also an active angel investor as a Sequoia Scout in Seed and Series A consumer tech companies.

Ellen obtained her MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. During her time at HBS, she was a Partner at Rough Draft Ventures, the pre-seed fund of General Catalyst. Prior to business school, she managed a unit of the Business Operations team at Twitter. Previously, she worked at Barclays Capital.

She co-authored the book Pitching & Closing: Everything You Need To Know About Business Development, Partnerships, and Making Deals that Matter, a guidebook to business development and revenue-generating partnerships at tech startups.