Ashley Welch and her cofounder were finally in the room for the big break they d been working towards: a chance to pitch their tech startup to a prominent venture-capital investor. Though she was confident in her vision for the company, Welch was frustrated by her business partner s habit of talking over her.
Suddenly, the investor they were pitching, Jason Calacanis, stopped the conversation. Who s the CEO? he wanted to know. I am, Welch s partner responded without skipping a beat. No, you re not, Calacanis shot back. She s the CEO.
Just like that, Welch was the CEO, and her startup, a dating app called Flutter, had a $25,000 investment and the promise of at least another $25,000 to come. The quick-fire decision was classic Calacanis, in keeping with a blunt, gut-driven style that sets him apart from his peers.
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Infected early in the pandemic, Dr. Tomoaki Kato, a renowned transplant surgeon, was soon on life support, and one of the sickest patients in his own hospital.
âI Had Never Faced the Reality of Deathâ: A Surgeon Becomes a Patient
Infected early in the pandemic, Dr. Tomoaki Kato, a renowned transplant surgeon, was soon on life support, and one of the sickest patients in his own hospital.
Dr. Tomoaki Kato, who performs liver and intestinal transplantations on adults and children at New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, was known to his boss as âour Michael Jordan.âCredit.Joshua Bright for The New York Times
June 3, 2021Updated 12:45 p.m. ET
Early in the pandemic, as hospitals in New York began postponing operations to make way for the flood of Covid-19 cases, Dr. Tomoaki Kato continued to perform surgery. Patients still needed liver transplants, and some were too sick to wait.