I found my calling finally after doing my postgraduate degree at Oxford and jumping headlong into a startup company of a friend of mine in the dot com boom era. And I realized what I wanted to do for the rest of my life was to create ventures. So that is what he made his core focus to take technology, not just develop the very best technology, but to bring it to patient care and have impact on patients.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marcus Gerhardt, chief executive of Blackrock Neurotech, to talk about his boarding school days in Wales (4:00), his dotcom adventures (10:00), pivoting to brain-computer interfaces (16:00), the “Utah array” (18:40), how in 2006 the first person sent an email with his thoughts (20:30), starting the company (23:00), the state of the technology today (26:40), targeting tetraplegics (33:00), getting investment (38:15), going to market (41:30), and reaching an inflection point (47:40).
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