Episodes featuring Max Hodak
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Max Hodak: What Really Kills Deep Tech Startups?
Max Hodak, CEO of retinal prosthesis company Science, talks with Y Combinator about why deep tech startups fail from weak internal systems, not weak technology.
The Regulatory Frontier: Battling Red Tape at Scale
Naval Ravikant, Blake Scholl, and Max Hodak discuss how AI could make regulatory compliance faster and cheaper, and why misaligned incentives in agencies like the FDA slow down innovation in medicine and hardware.