This Company Has a Plan to Beat Neuralink at the Brain-Computer Interface Game

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🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Bonus episode: Today we’re bringing you the latest episode of Bold Names, which presents conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. On this episode, hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to Michael Mager, co-founder and CEO of the brain-computer interface company Precision Neuroscience, whose technology aims to give patients with severe mobility issues new ways to interact with the digital world. How does Precision plan to offer brain implants to millions of people who could benefit from them? And how is the company competing with rivals like Synchron and Elon Musk’s Neuralink? Listen and subscribe to Bold Names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.6	Hey, TNB listeners.
0:20.3	We often chat about the intersection of science and tech here. So we thought
0:24.0	you'd like this episode of another WSJ podcast called Bold Names. Each week hosts Tim Higgins and
0:30.7	Christopher Mims sit down with leaders of prominent companies featured in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
0:36.2	On their latest episode, they
0:37.7	talk with the CEO of Precision Neuroscience. It's a company that aims to help people
0:42.4	with severe mobility issues stay connected with the digital world. And it hopes brain implants
0:48.2	for millions of people will help them do just that. But how does it work? How soon will it
0:53.3	be available and how steep is the cost? They get into all of that. But how does it work? How soon will it be available and how steep is the cost?
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1:10.0	Tim, what do you think is the hottest show on television right now?
1:13.2	Well, in my house, it is Severance on Apple TV.
1:16.0	What if I told you that the brain tech in Severance exists in real life, but instead of being owned by an evil corporation, it is being pioneered by a benevolent startup, which sees it as the future of helping millions
1:29.1	of people who are otherwise unable to interact with the world.
1:32.7	That's hopeful, but it sounds expensive.
1:34.9	Oh, we will be expensive.
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