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The Pharmacy Was in the Basement. Eric Kinariwala Saw the Blueprint Upstairs.
A broken escalator and an empty shelf gave a former investor his first clue. A decade later, the more revealing story is how Eric Kinariwala learned to build a company as carefully as a product.
Sonia Patel Jain Put the Pharmacist Back in the Pharmacy
She learned pharmacy from the counter outward, then helped rebuild it from the phone inward. At Capsule, Sonia Patel Jain made an old profession feel newly personal.
Geoffrey Chaiken
Geoffrey Chaiken is the co-founder and CEO of BlinkRx (Blink Health), a New York-based digital health company rebuilding how prescription drugs get priced, paid for, and delivered. The son and grandson of physicians, he gave up a career in medicine to attack what he calls the real bottleneck in healthcare - not discovering new cures, but getting existing ones into patients' hands at a fair price. With his younger brother Matthew, he has raised more than half a billion dollars to digitize both the patient front end and the pharmaceutical industry's back end, partnering with drug makers and tens of thousands of pharmacies to strip middlemen out of the medication supply chain.
Gavin Cotter
Gavin Cotter is the founder and CEO of Koala Health, a Boston-based digital pet pharmacy that delivers chronic pet medications through a mobile-first platform built to work directly with pet parents and their veterinarians. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer turned operations leader, he cut his teeth scaling PillPack's pharmacy operations before Amazon acquired it, then reassembled a core PillPack crew in 2021 to do for animals what PillPack did for people: make managing medications boring, easy, and reliable. Koala has since expanded to all 50 states and raised a $20M Series B led by Valspring Capital in 2025.