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slash disclosures. Hi, I'm Hannah, and welcome to the A16Z podcast. This episode of the podcast is all

about enhancing what it means to be human, from what we eat to what we measure, to what we

produce, to how we perform. It is based on a conversation with Chris Dixon that took place at

our inaugural summit event with Daniel Chow, CEO of Halo Neuroscience,

Rob Reinhart, CEO of Soylent, James Rogers, CEO of Appeal, and Jeffrey Wu, CEO of NeutraBox.

Okay, great. So maybe, since you guys all do interesting stuff, maybe we should go down and just describe kind of what your product is and a little bit about it, what it does.

Yeah, sure. I'm happy to start. My name is Daniel Chal. I'm the founder and CEO of Halo Neuroscience.

We're a human performance company, and specifically we build technologies that use electricity to stimulate the brain and produce

temporary states of hyper learning.

Cool.

My name is Jeffrey Wu.

And we started off in this hardcore biohacking community where people were tinkering

with Russian Alzheimer drugs, different powders.

I had like a sub-millimeter drug scale mixing different ratios of different powders. I had like, you know, a sub-millogram drug scale,

mixing different ratios of different powders and different compounds. And tens of thousands of

people were doing this in their kitchens, in their home labs. I'm Rob Reckler. I'm co-founder and

CEO of Soilet. So I see a future where food is healthy by default. We started with a

nutritionally complete powdered meal replacement.

More recently released a line of beverages, flavored beverages, functional beverages, including caffeine

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