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How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter
FromCold Call
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
When serial entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt (founder of Sirius XM) received her seven-year-old daughter’s diagnosis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), she created United Therapeutics and developed a drug to save her life. When her daughter later needed a lung transplant, Rothblatt decided to take what she saw as the logical next step: manufacturing organs for transplantation. Rothblatt’s entrepreneurial career exemplifies a larger debate around the role of the firm in creating solutions for society’s problems. If companies are uniquely good at innovating, what voice should society have in governing the new technologies that firms create?
Released:
Apr 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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