Q&A With United Therapeutics' Leader, America's Most Successful Transgender CEO

Martine Rothblatt, a speaker at the Forbes’ 2016 Philanthropy Summit, knows how to translate moonshot ideas to reality. Her first came when she was hitchhiking around the world and supporting herself as a musician playing in hotels. In the Seychelles, she got a chance tour of a NASA satellite facility and immediately was inspired to build satellites so small but still so powerful that “everyone in the world could be tuned into the same music.” When she got back to America, she enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles and majored in communications engineering.

Back to news