by thenewgreen

After the rejection, he commiserated with his friend Steve Clausnitzer. The two had been close since meeting through their wives a decade earlier and had even teamed up on a business, launching a Reddit-like website called Hubski. "I told Steve, 'I'm not mad I didn't get the grants,' " Katakowski recalls, " 'but I'm turning 40 and I want to bank my stem cells, and there's no way to do that.' "