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Introduction
Rick
Our teacher today is John Crowley, the man Tim Ferriss referred to as the real-life Captain America. The fact is it's difficult to appropriately describe John and the Crowley family story without drawing comparisons to superheroes. Harrison Ford give it a shot, and the result is Extraordinary Measures. A blockbuster movie, he starred in alongside Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell, which is based on Geena Anand's book "The Cure" about John and his wife's journey to save two of their children from a then untreatable disease called Pompe.
Thanks to John, that's no longer the case. And now more than 20 years later, both of his children and many others with Pompe are not only still living, but they are thriving as a source of inspiration for others battling rare diseases. Since that time, John has gone on to build several successful biotech companies, including Amicus Therapeutics, where he currently serves as the Executive Chairman. On in his free time and in response to 9/11, John decided to enlist as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, where he served from 2005 to 2016 in the global war on terrorism, with service in Afghanistan and assignments alongside the Joint Special Operations Command or JSOC; the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and the CIA.