Andrew Woo

Solving wicked problems at Protocol Labs. Former early team at TripActions, Apartment List, Bain. Better half: @katherinelwoo

[Andrew Woo @androowoo]

@Xeer @SingaporeAir SQ has really gone down. And their customer support if anything goes wrong is terrible.

[Juan Benet @juanbenet]

Excited to launch a new podcast dedicated to conversations on the future of neurotech, computing, intelligence, and more.

First guest: @maxhodak_ founder & CEO of @ScienceCorp_, which is building PRIMA, a retinal prosthetic that’s restoring meaningful vision for patients with blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration.

Science is also developing a biohybrid brain implant that grows living neurons directly onto a silicon chip, then interfaces that system with the cortex. The possibility space here is vast and new. Imagine growing new areas of the brain.

Sections
00:00 What counts as neurotech?
01:45 History of brain-computer interfaces and the smartphone dividend
07:25 PRIMA - How Science is restoring vision in blind patients
10:10 Why stimulating bipolar cells works when the optic nerve doesn't
30:30 Are we bottlenecked by biology or engineering?
32:40 Expanding the brain's bandwidth beyond 10 bits per second
37:00 Can we add new areas to the brain?
37:46 Biohybrid BCIs: neurons growing on a chip
39:20 What could neural augmentation look like?
01:13:20 How Science drives Fast R&D
01:44:00 How founders learn and level up

This is the kind of discussion I’m excited to explore on this podcast. Enjoy!

Full Episode 1 here and in links below.

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@fesshole

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@timourxyz @decadimitry @VCBrags I can vouch for this - the Edge City team goes above and beyond to welcome families and children to their cities.

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@hnshah @Urban__Duke @WillManidis Solid - great food for thought. Thank you

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@VictorPontis Luma is great

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@mignano Looks amazing, excited to try it!

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@iWomansplainer I’ve done similar things before and I find that people are generally honest

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@josemorgado At 0-30 - insane

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@fudwrld @TheTennisLetter It’s the right call, it’s in the rule book

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@Gill_Gross I love medvedev but that should have been a warning then a point penalty

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@veils_6th_blade @Gill_Gross It’s in the rule book

[Santi Cristobal 🐽🇦🇷 @scristobal94]

Haven't seen many organizations supporting innovation and empowering people as much as @protocollabs.

Super proud to work with them to Bring Argentina Onchain and push humanity forward.

Big thanks to @juanbenet, @androowoo and the whole team.

[Andrew Woo @androowoo]

@snortingpages My two cents - you have to help others, give of yourself, serve those around you

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@sternhenri @stripe Congrats Henri! Wonderful news.

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@pitdesi Delicious but at least in Singapore, expensive!

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@chrislakin Anything costly to that person - $ works unless they are super wealthy. Otherwise proof of work, time investment, thinking, etc

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@josephpalbanese Would love to try it

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@haridigresses Looks amazing, nice work!

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@elsatnguyen @FilFoundation Congrats Elsa!