HOW YOUR OFFICE SALAD CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Inc.|September 2024
For Sharebite's Dilip Rao, eliminating food insecurity isn't an empty marketing goal. It's his calling.
Diana Ransom
HOW YOUR OFFICE SALAD CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Dilip Rao didn't need to start a business. As an investment banker at Credit Suisse, he was highly paid and good at his job. But on July 5, 2014, while crossing the street in Midtown Manhattan, the then 33-year-old newlywed was struck by a car. He suffered a concussion and a handful of other injuries, which rendered him temporarily unable to move his arms and legs.

"When I was lying in the hospital and couldn't feel anything from the neck down, I went through the worst-case scenarios in my head," he says. Rao wondered whether this was it. "I had so many more things that I wanted to do." That's the human condition, of course, but it also drove his recovery. He spent the next six to 12 months engaged in rigorous physical therapy, and felt lightheaded and had ringing in his ears that persists.

Two years after the accidentand with a baby on the way-Rao quit his job. "It sounded crazy," he says. "People were like, 'Your concussion must have been really rough if you're going to do this.""

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