They Helped Save Their Co-Founder While Building a Company
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|May - June 2020
Every founder knows that the culture they create can ensure their company’s survival. Rarely, though, does it save an actual life. But that’s exactly what happened at MX, a Lehi, Utah-based fintech company co-founded by Ryan Caldwell and Brandon Dewitt in 2010.
In 2016, Dewitt learned he had Stage IV salivary acinic cell carcinoma, a rare cancer that had already spread. He’d just turned 33 and ran every day. Yet Dewitt’s doctor informed him that he had, at most, 90 days to live.
His colleagues mobilized immediately. The plan: hack the cancer and do everything they could to save his life.
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