Disclo CEO and co-founder Hannah Olson was diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was in college. At the time, she didn’t really see herself as someone with a disability, even though it meant spending hours each day hooked up to an IV.
When she entered the workforce, she soon was confronted with the difficulties of navigating, disclosing and asking for support around her condition. “I had no clue about this process, but I saw first-hand just how uncomfortable it was.” That lack of knowledge is what would kickstart her entire entrepreneurial journey – from spending time as a disability employment advisor, to building her first company, Chronically Capable, with a former boss, Kai Keane.
Chronically Capable helps people with disabilities and chronic illnesses find flexible jobs, and now, after scaling it for nearly five years, the founding duo has built another company that ...