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Max Hodak: “Speed Is Determined by Infrastructure”

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Meta's heavy internal tools investment yields significant efficiency gains

2026-08-07 · 5 company · 14 thematic

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max hodak

Max Hodak is the founder of Science, a brain-computer interface company developing the Prima retinal prosthesis (restoring form vision in clinical trials), bio-hybrid neural interfaces, and portable perfusion technology. He co-founded Neuralink in 2016 after an email from Sam Altman connected him with Elon Musk. Previously founded Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory. Holds a biomedical engineering degree and has worked on primate BCI research since 2008.

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“Facebook also very famously invested heavily in internal tools and now has um like I think gets a lot of efficiency from that.”

—max hodak

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