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Anand Parikh Learned Biotech by Asking Better Questions - Then Built Around the Answers
A biology student became a lawyer, a lawyer became an operator, and an operator built a biotech company around a neglected question: what changes when metabolism is treated as part of the therapeutic design?
Sami Inkinen
Sami Inkinen is a Finnish-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Virta Health, a company on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people through nutrition, technology, and AI. He earlier co-founded the real estate marketplace Trulia, taking it public in 2012 before its merger with Zillow. A self-described 'incurable data geek' and world-class endurance athlete, he is a triathlon age-group world champion and, in 2014, rowed 2,750 miles unsupported across the Pacific from California to Hawaii with his wife in a record-setting 45 days to raise awareness about sugar and metabolic disease.