D.A. Wallach’s first meeting with his business partner could have been the setting of a romantic comedy.
Wallach met Tim Wright in 2018 at a beachside restaurant in Del Mar, Calif., where they dissected the health care industry over seafood. “Then we ended up, if I remember correctly, walking on the beach. It was very romantic,” Wallach said.
Wallach, 37, was a music maven whose college band had caught the attention of Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, leading to a job at Spotify and a dizzying decade navigating the California lifestyle. You can spot Wallach making a cameo in his friend Damien Chazelle’s 2016 film “La La Land” as an ’80s cover band singer. Wright, 67, had spent his career working in drug discovery at Novartis and Pfizer, creating blockbuster products for inflammatory diseases.
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