Mager: Dr. Ben Rapoport co-founded Neuralink with Elon Musk
Michael Mager · Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge · Sep 5, 2025 · at 2:35
Michael Mager, CEO of Precision Neuroscience, describes co-founder Dr. Ben Rapoport's background in neurotechnology.
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“Ben was also one of the co-founders of Neuralink with Elon Musk and several others and left to approach this technology in a different way for reasons that we'll get into.”
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