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Sequoia Capital

Neuralink's DJ Seo: Inside the Race to Connect Brains and AI

2026-05-28 · 1 company · 3 thematic
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Co-founded Neuralink with Elon Musk in 2016; PhD from Berkeley in miniaturized low-power electronics; previously at Caltech; leads the company's engineering across implants, surgical robotics, and neural decoding.

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