Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas

So you just, you know your specialty, you know medicine, you don't know much outside of that.

But I had never really worked with like multinational CFOs and just have that global perspective.

I really didn't work with a lot of VCs before.

Rocket scientists, people who were talking about satellites from SpaceX, just the conversations were different.

Not saying that I didn't work with a lot of really smart people, but...

These people just thought differently.

So then it causes you to think a little bit differently about what the opportunities could be versus what the normal protocol always is.

And it's true.

I mean, if I mess up, someone may die.

Well, if they mess up.

And the satellite or the rocket, like the same thing can happen.

So I realized that the risk is there in many different ways, but you can kind of think outside of the box.

And that really gave me the opportunity to work with startups, to really talk about innovation.

And that kind of led me no longer in the straight and narrow path of just practicing medicine as a surgeon, just what else can happen.

Yeah, so actually it was spinal meningitis.

So when I was about three, I contracted meningitis.

Now, whether it was bacterial or viral, not 100% sure.

But I remember growing up hearing about Dr. Hess, who was my pediatrician, that he figured out what was going on early.

And then I was able to be treated and not have any psuella.

Because as a kid, you're not going to be able to communicate the way that you would now because I may have a stick neck or I have high fevers.