Mourice Schuurmans is founder of Obsessless, a platform helping people with obsessive-compulsive disorder get early intervention while the current healthcare system can't reach them fast enough.

In episode 4 of StartingUP, we sit down with Mourice to talk about turning his own years-long struggle with OCD into a business built to close the gap he couldn't find help in himself. His starting point is simple: most people still think OCD is about tidiness, when it's actually about intrusive thoughts and the compulsions people use to quiet them. From there we get into why he built in public on Instagram before he had a product, why direct-to-consumer growth is brutal but validates demand faster than B2B ever could, and what founding on top of your own diagnosis really costs you.

No polished founder story, no gatekeeping. Just how one founder turned what nearly broke him into something that helps others carry it too.

▶ About Obsessless A platform for early intervention in obsessive-compulsive disorder, built to reach people the current mental health system can't get to in time. Site: https://www.obsessless.com/

▶ About StartingUP The founder podcast with no gatekeeping, made at Startup Village, Amsterdam Science Park. Real founder problems and what it actually takes to solve them early.

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