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