Meet the two cofounders who went on a 10-month-long trip before starting their $350 million business—they say you should too
Source: Fortune ·
They trekked through China, Colombia, and the Philippines—and it made their bond stronger.
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Nate Wilson and Eli Ben-Joseph generated more than $150 million in revenue from their AI health care company Regard following their 2024 Series B valuation of $350 million. But before Wilson and Ben-Joseph built a company worth millions, they spent months traveling together through China, the Philippines, and Colombia. They got stranded, lost control of plans, and figured out how to navigate unfamiliar places with each other. They say they didn’t set out to test their compatibility as business partners: They were just two engineers who were deciding what to do once they weren’t sure they wanted to become doctors. Wilson was a biomedical engineer who had been preparing for medical school—but decided to pursue consulting instead, before starting a data science firm. Ben-Joseph, meanwhile, was a bioengineer at MIT who was also preparing to attend medical school. The two eventually met in Boston through a Craigslist sublet—and so, with some time on their hands, decided to travel. In…