A Signature Page Swap Cost Him His Company. Then He Got Stage Four Cancer | Jacob Godak
In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Jacob Godak, founder of Apisem, to break down how a prosthetics and orthotics clinician built a device out of two cut-up Nordic Tracks and a mountain bike to get a double amputee patient walking again, and how a business partner used a swapped signature page to remove him from the company he invented.
We talk about:
How Primus Excursio was built to help a patient who lost both legs to diabetes get moving again
Why the device hits 98% voluntary muscle activation, more than a rowing machine, with zero impact
Getting frozen out…
The skinny
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