'Literally. We're going to show up and we're going to put cash in their pocket': Alex Furman is flying out of SFO and heading to the Ukraine-Romania border to distribute the money he and his wife helped raise.
"All the stages of grief, right. Like anger, fear, bargaining- there was a little bit of bargaining. It hit me pretty hard," Furman said.
As the world watches scenes of devastation continuing to unfold in the eastern European country, Furman says he felt compelled to do something.And do something, he did. Furman is the the co-founder of the San Francisco-based biotech company Invitae.Now, Furman is catching a Friday afternoon flight out of SFO and heading to the Ukraine-Romania border to distribute the money he's helped raise.
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