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Podcast: American Thought Leaders
Episode: How I Discovered a Possible Cure for My Son’s Incurable Disease | Patrick Girondi
Description: Why did Patrick Girondi, a successful singer and songwriter, become the founder and CEO of a pharmaceutical company?Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Girondi dropped out of high school and became a musician and also, quite by accident, a highly successful commodities trader.In the early 1990s, his young son Rocco was diagnosed with thalassemia, a rare blood disorder caused by a defect in the globin genes.Girondi was told by doctors that his son would not live to be a teenager.So Girondi set out to find a...