Marcus Gerhard is the CEO of BlackRock Neurotech, formerly BlackRock Microsystems. He met his co-founder Florian at a boarding school in Wales when they were 16 years old. When asked what he wanted to do later in life, Florian responded instantly: "I want to create the bridge between bionic and artificial limb"
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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