In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Kunal Vaishnav, co-founder and COO of Exxat, makes a compelling case that a significant and largely overlooked driver of America's healthcare workforce crisis is not burnout or immigration policy, but an administrative bottleneck that his company has spent 14 years building software to fix. With 65,766 qualified nursing applicants turned away in a single year due to a shortage of clinical training placements, Exxat sits at the center of a two-sided marketplace connecting more than 1,600 academic programs, 10,000 clinical affiliates, and 400,000 healthcare students across the country. Kunal traces the company's origin to a chance hallway conversation at USC, a market research project in business school, and two early customers who believed in the vision before the product was even complete, and shares ho ...