Ankit Modi’s journey with Qure.ai could have ended almost as soon as it began. He had an offer from Epic Systems in the US, and though the company’s first H-1B application for Ankit failed, it succeeded the following year. But by then, he had started Qure.ai with Prashant Warier and Preetham Putha, and Ankit was in a huge dilemma. “The choice was stark – stay back and build Qure with Prashant, Preetham, and the others, or move to Wisconsin to work in healthcare,” he recalls. The decision hinged on what he calls ₹reversibility’. Moving to the US could always be an option later if Qure didn’t work out, he told himself. Lengthy talks with Prashant, and a look at Qure’s talented founding team convinced Ankit this was the team he wanted to grow with. And he took the decision to stay even th
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