Without a Doubt?
I read the bio by Surbhi Sarna, which features in the title of this blog-post, who sold her medical start-up to Boston Scientific for a lot of money. That's not the cover, by the way, but more on that later.
There are two main takeaways from the read, and the first is to dispel any notion of overnight success. Any enterprise like this has to feel, to borrow a medical term, like a daily pain in the ass.
But beyond this lesson is how such enterprise brings out both the best and the worst in people. Beside the regular betrayals of one sort or another, there would be frequent 'ghostings' and any number of people emerging from the woodwork at the mere scent of success.
It is this human, all too human side of the story that educates moreso than the literal ins-and-outs of sending video cameras top fallopian tubes... which never really floated my boat.
Ghosting is something that I imagine would be relatively unknown among our parents generation, although whether it is more attributable to social media than a decline in common civility we shall never know.
Among the first to hear about the block-lock system I hoped to commercialise tho' was someone I barely knew, and working in a warehouse. We'd common ground in so far as I worked there ~ although not in the warehouse ~ and we both enjoyed running although 'enjoy' is a term I use loosely in my case.
He worked there, he said, to pass the time and did not have to because he'd sold a company that imported cosmetics. This triggered my bullshit geiger-counter and so I looked it up and it does appear that there is a cosmetics company called Dreamweave in Australia as Steve said.
What is odd though, and Surbhi will relate to this, is despite him providing both phone number and email address I never heard a thing back ever again. And curioser, the UK company going by that name was only officially dissolved a week or two after my own revelation.
If he is going it alone, though, I wish him the best of luck...
... it's tougher than selling lip-filler.
