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Meet a 71-year-old who retired as a radiologist and professor, and now runs a banana-skewer business: ‘I never want to retire. Why would you do that?’
Richard Brown’s career has taken him from the exam room to the classroom and boardroom. At 71, he’s still working—and is now focused on entrepreneurship.
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Richard Brown, a former nuclear medicine physician and professor, formally retired in 2020 but immediately accepted a university leadership role the following week and became involved with a venture‑backed health‑care startup. He has now shifted to product entrepreneurship, launching a banana‑skewer business. In a recent Fortune interview, Brown said his hobbies revolve around learning new things and that this new venture excites him more than any prior work.
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