This Psychologist Got Rich Selling Her Chain Of Autism Treatment Centers. Now She’s Trying To Buy It Back.

 This Psychologist Got Rich Selling Her Chain Of Autism Treatment Centers. Now She’s Trying To Buy It Back.

Doreen Granpeesheh built the Center for Autism and Related Disorders into a national chain and sold it to private equity firm Blackstone in a $600 million deal. Now, in an unexpected twist, she is trying to buy the bankrupt company for a much smaller sum.

It is my baby, I cant let it die, says Doreen Granpeesheh of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, the autism therapy company she founded at age 27.
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