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- Kai Micah Mills is a rare cryonics entrepreneur in the latest batch of Thiel Fellows.
- His startup Cryopets aims to establish a chain of animal hospitals set up to freeze pets upon death.
- He believes that scientific advances can one day revive people's frozen companions.
When he was 14, Kai Micah Mills brought home a long-haired tabby cat and named it Cat. Growing up in Utah, they were inseparable. Mills, a soft-spoken, antisocial teenager, had dropped out of high school and earned an income running Minecraft servers from his basement. He didn't have many friends, but he always had Cat.
Cat is getting on in years. But if his owner's new business works out the way he hopes, Cat will never die.