It was good to catch up with Shiori Masaki. They’d dated a little in business school, but she had moved
to California after graduation. She’d recently founded a company that focused on getting medical care to
patients in Third World countries. Every time Alan talked to her, she sounded more passionate about
what her company was achieving.
She described a plan for partnering with big pharmaceutical companies to get medications for cancer,
pain, and infectious diseases to people กn Africa and Indonesia more quickly and cheaply. “It’s really
exciting. But have we made it appealing enough for an industry partner? That’s what I need you to tell
me.”
Alan looked over some materials Shiori had brought.