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#223: Tyler Hayes, CEO of Atom Limbs, the World's First Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm

November 03, 2020

Tyler Hayes is CEO of Atom Limbs, the world's first mind-controlled bionic arm. Tyler was previously Co-Founder of Bebo (acq. Amazon) and Executive Producer of Minka which won Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the FFF.

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Some of the Topics Covered by Tyler Hayes in this Episode

  • What Atom Limbs is doing today

  • How Tyler started Atom Limbs and why he wants to end death

  • The progress DARPA

  • How Tyler built a world-class team for Atom Limbs

  • Why Tyler decided to build in stealth initially

  • Raising capital through crowdfunding with Wefunder

  • The marketing behind Atom Limbs and a crowdfunding campaign more broadly

  • How Tyler and his team are going about putting Atom Limbs into full production

  • The tech transfer process from Johns Hopkins to Atom Limbs

  • Thoughts on monetization for frontier tech

  • How Tyler thinks through about pricing for Atom Limbs

  • The products that Atom Limbs are developing and they're capable of

  • Where most of Tyler's time is spent now with Atom Limbs

  • Some of Tyler's favorite books

  • The importance of finding "your people"

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