Bryan Talebi was born in a tiny village with no running water and no electricity in the southeastern desert of Iran. He began his career working as an Aerospace Engineer at NASA at the age of sixteen. Bryan started his first company while in college and then worked at multiple machine learning companies which went on to become unicorns. Today, Bryan is the founder of Ahura AI, an artificial intelligence and biometric data company enabling accelerated education. Bryan also runs AB+ Ventures, an impact fund focused on transformational AI, and Digital Guardians, a non-profit he started with Richard Branson to mitigate existential risk.Bryan has a remarkable ability to connect with people. In this conversation, we share systems and strategies for presenting yourself confidently in social settings, activating your network to maximize your opportunity surface area, and making more authentic connections.For the video, transcript, and show notes, visit forcingfunctionhour.com/bryan-talebi.