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After working with wounded Israeli soldiers in the 1970s, he developed a holistic approach to helping patients regain some semblance of the life they had before. Yehuda Ben-Yishay, a psychologist whose experience working with wounded Israeli soldiers led him to make pioneering advances in treating traumatic brain injuries, helping countless …

His first company, Odwalla, was crippled by a bacterial outbreak; he then started Califia Farms, now a leader in the beverage industry. In 1980, Greg Steltenpohl and his hippie friends in Santa Cruz, Calif., bought a juicer for $ 250, began squeezing fresh orange juice and sold it out of …