I started a nonprofit to fight ALS after my husband's death. Here's how tech and AI can help us find a cure.

Indu Navar and her late husband, Peter Cohen.

Courtesy of Indu Navar.

• Indu Navar has spent her career in tech, building and investing in organizations in Silicon Valley.
• She founded the Peter Cohen Foundation and EverythingALS after her husband died of ALS.
• Cohen had a long tech career, too. He built Amazon Mechanical Turk and AWS at Amazon.

This is an As-Told-To essay based on a conversation with Indu Navar, the CEO and Founder of EverythingALS. It has been edited for length and clarity.