A profound yet tragically common backstory.
✔️ Visionaries are often dismissed as 'crazy' simply because their breakthroughs are too disruptive for others to immediately understand.
✔️ Innovation depends on multiple forms of capital—financial, human, social—and navigating the power dynamics and motivations within these can be harrowing, often putting pioneers at odds with entrenched systems.
I am most inspired by stories like these. Seeing a future everyone around you can’t see can be isolating and maddening on its own. Let alone when you’re facing being fired and told your science is junk.
Here's to the rare few who possess the intellect, empathy, resilience, self-awareness, and stamina to push humanity forward, even when faced with dehumanizing opposition.
Thank you for sharing this Alicia Moran and for the vital work you do connecting and elevating - a special skill that often goes unrecognized. 👏
#innovation #leadership #disruptors
Today, during an amazing medtech conference at UMD — where I helped a Prince George’s County company connect to a potential investor, a potential partner, a potential buyer and regulators - a profound story was told. It was a story about a faculty researcher that was told their science was junk and was almost fired by their University employer. The facility member survived this event and continued doing research under another faculty member. Turns out — the research that was done was ground breaking science and the university is now making billions off that science. Remember that they once tried to fire this person and told them their science was no good.
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