Psychology Today | 28.08.2026 03:35
In 1997, Ernest Bates bought into a hillside in Napa. He was one of the first three Black board-certified neurosurgeons in the United States, the first Black student to graduate from Johns Hopkins’s undergraduate college, and the founder of a publicly traded medical-equipment company. By 2000, he had stopped practicing and was making cabernet. Friends thought it was a hobby. They were wrong about the category. It was a pivot.
