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Bloomberg: Bill Gates and Former Bass Guitarist Aim to Change Health Care

By Yoolim Lee and David Ramli

July 24, 2019

Jonathan Sudharta was a brawl-prone, unremarkable student who played in a rock band. Friends of his father, a self-made tycoon, feared he’d one day take over the family medical business and ruin it.

Instead, in 2016, at the age of 34, Sudharta co-founded a startup that attracted the interest of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and today becomes the organization’s first ever equity investment in an online health-care platform.

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