These telehealth startups became global powerhouses overnight

If you’d talked to Brandon Welch in 2013, he probably wouldn’t have expected to be the CEO of a global leader in telemedicine. Back then, Welch was a University of Utah doctoral student working on a hospital study to make prenatal checkups easier for pregnant women. Virtual visits made sense, but existing HIPAA-compliant platforms were complicated and expensive, so he built his own technology—just for the project.