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After testing roughly 40 prototypes, Brown settled on the final design, featuring patent-pending semi-helical geometry
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Brown’s latest venture has also given him a crash course in something else: using AI to build a business largely on his own.
Key facts
- At 71, Richard Brown feels as if he’s a college student all over again
- Brown graduated from the University of Michigan’s medical school in 1980 and spent the next two decades in private practice
- After testing roughly 40 prototypes, Brown settled on the final design, featuring patent-pending semi-helical geometry
- A nuclear medicine physician turned professor, Brown formally retired in 2020—only to take another job in university leadership the following week and join a venture-backed health care startup
Summary
At 71, Richard Brown feels as if he’s a college student all over again. A nuclear medicine physician turned professor, Brown formally retired in 2020—only to take another job in university leadership the following week and join a venture-backed health care startup. “My hobbies tend to be learning something new,” Brown told Fortune in a recent interview. “I think I never want to retire,” he added. His latest experiment is Poka Snack, a skewer-like product designed to make it easier to freeze and eat fruit, particularly bananas.