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Max Hodak: “Speed Is Determined by Infrastructure”

2026-08-07 · 6 company · 16 thematic

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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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“SpaceX and Tesla internally have a pretty giant piece of software called Warp Speed that runs a lot of their manufacturing and R&D processes. And so when one company grows up around a harness fit to it, it can be very powerful. It is power…”

—max hodak

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