Max Hodak

Max Hodak is an entrepreneur and the founder of several companies, including Neuralink, Transcriptic, MyFit, and Science Corp. He is the former CEO of MyFit and Transcriptic, and the former CTO of Inporia. As of 2023, Hodak serves as the CEO of Science Corp.

Hodak has been practicing programming since age five or six. In May 2012, he graduated from Duke University with a bachelor of science in engineering degree. Throughout his four years of attendance, Hodak worked as a research assistant at Duke University's Nicolelis Lab, during which he built brain-machine interfaces for monkeys. He also worked full-time in California during his first two years at the school. He averaged 128,550 miles flown between California and North Carolina in each of those years.

Hodak cofounded MyFit in January 2008 with Jason Mueller. That year, the company competed at North Carolina State University’s eGames and Duke University’s Start-up competitions under the name AcceptEdge. MyFit began as a Facebook app with the intention of gathering data and building models to reveal the likelihood of college acceptance for a high school student. It analyzed normal attributes like grade-point average and test scores. It also considered a student's online “social maps” and real timereal-time data about their lifestyle, goals, and interests. After Hodak completed his sophomore year of college, he took a year leave of absence from school to serve as MyFit's CEO from 2009 to 2010. In that time, the company raised $1 million from New Enterprise Associates. The company was acquired by Naviance in October 2010.

Neuralink was founded in July 2016 by Hodak, Elon Musk, Tim Hanson, Tim Gardner, Vanessa Tolosa, Benjamin Rapoport, Paul Merolla, Dongjin Seo, and Phillip Sabes. The company develops ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces that can connect the human brain to a computer. On May 1, 2021, Hodak announced that he had left his position at Neuralink a few weeks prior. The reason for his departure was unnoted, but it was speculated that he may have quit over disagreements with cofounder Elon Musk, or was possibly fired for moving too slowslowly with clinical trials.

Science Corp, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, was founded by Hodak in 2021. It operated in stealth mode until November 2022, when the company revealed its flagship product, the Science Eye. Science Corp's work is similar to Neuralink's, but focuses on using the process of photonics rather than physically implanted chips in the brain. Hodak serves as Science Corp's CEO.

In 2013, Hodak received the White House Champion of Change Award due to his company Transcriptic being the first company to raise a seed round online from a crowdsourced group of angel investors. For this, Hodak was called a “crowdfunding pioneer.” In 2015, he was named to Forbes's 30 Under 30 List.

Max Hodak is an entrepreneur and the founder of several companies including Neuralink, Transcriptic, myFitMyFit, and Science Corp. He is the former CEO of MyFit and Transcriptic, and the former CTO of Inporia. As of 2023, Hodak serves as the CEO of Science Corp.

Hodak cofounded myFitMyFit in January 2008 with Jason Mueller. That year the company competed at North Carolina State University’s eGames and Duke University’s Start-up competitions under the name AcceptEdge. myFitMyFit began as a Facebook app with the intention of gathering data and building models to reveal the likelihood of college acceptance for a high school student. It analyzed normal attributes like grade-point average and test scores. It also considered a student's online “social maps” and real time data about their lifestyle, goals, and interests. After Hodak completed his sophomore year of college, he took a year leave of absence from school to serve as myFitMyFit's CEO from 2009 to 2010. In that time the company raised $1 million from New Enterprise Associates. The company was acquired by Naviance in October 2010.

Neuralink was founded in July 2016 by Hodak, Elon Musk, Tim HansonTim Hanson, Tim GardnerTim Gardner, Vanessa TolosaVanessa Tolosa, BenBenjamin Rapoport Rapoport, Paul MerollaPaul Merolla, Dongjin SeoDongjin Seo, and Phillip SabesPhillip Sabes. The company develops ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces that can connect the human brain to a computer. On May 1, 2021, Hodak announced that he had left his position at Neuralink a few weeks prior. The reason for his departure was unnoted, but it was speculated that he may have quit over disagreements with cofounder Elon Musk, or was possibly fired for moving too slow with clinical trials.

Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist. He is the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, and the founder and former CEO of Transcriptic and myFit.

From 2007 to 2012 Max Hodak attended Duke University where he successfully graduated with a bachelors of science in biomedical engineering. During his time at Duke University Hodak worked as a research assistant from February 2008 to May 2012 (4 years and 4 months) in the Duke Medical Center under the supervision of Miguel Nicolelis. During his time at the Duke Medical Center he assisted the building of brain-machine interfaces for Rhesus monkeys. When commenting on his time at Duke University Hodak told reporters about two people he met at Duke that he attributes his success to by saying:

There were two people that I met in North Carolina who really opened a lot of doors. And a lot of that was luck. And the way I would look at that now is looking at it in terms of surface area. You definitely want to have a large surface area for exposure so people can find you.

Max Hodak is an entrepreneur and the founder of several companies including Neuralink, Transcriptic, myFit, and Science Corp. He is the former CEO of MyFit and Transcriptic, and the former CTO of Inporia. As of 2023, Hodak serves as the CEO of Science Corp.

Hodak has been practicing programming since age five or six. In May 2012, he graduated from Duke University with a bachelor of science in engineering degree. Throughout his four years of attendance, Hodak worked as a research assistant at Duke University's Nicolelis Lab during which he built brain-machine interfaces for monkeys. He also worked full-time in California during his first two years at the school. He averaged 128,550 miles flown between California and North Carolina in each of those years.

In January 2008 Max Hodak founded a company called myFit, a company focusing on creating software capable of forecasting the likelihood of high school students being accepted into universities. The company successfully raised a series A funding round and was bought out by Naviance in October of 2010.

Hodak cofounded myFit in January 2008 with Jason Mueller. That year the company competed at North Carolina State University’s eGames and Duke University’s Start-up competitions under the name AcceptEdge. myFit began as a Facebook app with the intention of gathering data and building models to reveal the likelihood of college acceptance for a high school student. It analyzed normal attributes like grade-point average and test scores. It also considered a student's online “social maps” and real time data about their lifestyle, goals, and interests. After Hodak completed his sophomore year of college, he took a year leave of absence from school to serve as myFit's CEO from 2009 to 2010. In that time the company raised $1 million from New Enterprise Associates. The company was acquired by Naviance in October 2010.

In February 2012 Max Hodak founded Transcriptic, a company focusing on creating a robotic cloud laboratory for biology. The company was headquartered in Menlo Park, California and designed, built, owned, and operated automated infrastructure for molecular and cell biology laboratory research. The companies infrastructure was remotely accessible online for researchers looking to remotely operate the company's equipment through their web browser. Max Hodak left Transcriptic in November 2017 to become the co-founder and president of Neuralink.

Hodak is the founder and former CEO of Transcriptic. He founded the company in February 2012 after being inspired by his time as a research assistant at Duke University. Transcriptic was a scientific infrastructure company that operated a next-generation research platform. Transcriptic merged with 3Scan in 2019 and became known as Strateos.

In 2016 Max Hodak co-founded the nanobiotechnology company Nerualink, with Elon Musk, Tim Hanson, Tim Gardner, Vanessa Tolosa, Ben Rapoport, Paul Merolla, Dongjin Seo, and Phillip Sabes.Hodak told reporters he was originally skeptical about the potential of technologies in development by Neuralink, and was convinced of the company's potential by Elon Musk.

From 2011 to 2012 Max Hodak served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Inporia.

From 2010 to 2011 Max Hodak served as a software engineer for PBworks.

Neuralink was founded in July 2016 by Hodak, Elon Musk, Tim Hanson, Tim Gardner, Vanessa Tolosa, Ben Rapoport, Paul Merolla, Dongjin Seo, and Phillip Sabes. The company develops ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces that can connect the human brain to a computer. On May 1, 2021, Hodak announced that he had left his position at Neuralink a few weeks prior. The reason for his departure was unnoted, but it was speculated that he may have quit over disagreements with cofounder Elon Musk, or was possibly fired for moving too slow with clinical trials.

Science Corp, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, was founded by Hodak in 2021. It operated in stealth mode until November 2022 when the company revealed its flagship product, the Science Eye. Science Corp's work is similar to Neuralink's, but focuses on using the process of photonics rather than physically implanted chips in the brain. Hodak serves as Science Corp's CEO.

Hodak has invested in Mindstate Design Labs, Synex Medical, Synchron, and Glassdome.

In 2015 Max Hodak, at the age of 25, was listed as a member of the 2015 30 under 30 list by Forbes.

The following list contains companies that Max Hodak invested in:

• FlyodHub
• Womply

In 2013, Hodak received the White House Champion of Change Award due to his company Transcriptic being the first company to raise a seed round online from a crowdsourced group of angel investors. For this Hodak was called a “crowdfunding pioneer.” In 2015, he was named to Forbes's 30 Under 30 List.

From 2011 to 2012 Max Hodak served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Inporia.

From 2010 to 2011 Max Hodak served as a software engineer for PBworks.

Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist. He is the co-founder and former president and co-founder of Neuralink, and the founder and former CEO of Transcriptic and myFit.

In 2016 Max Hodak co-founded the nanobiotechnology company Nerualink, with Elon Musk, Tim Hanson, Tim Gardner, Vanessa Tolosa, Ben Rapoport, Paul Merolla, Dongjin Seo, and Phillip Sabes. Neuralink is working to Hadok is currently serving as the president of Neuralink (as of 2020). HodakSabes.Hodak told reporters he was originally skeptical about the potential of technologies in development by Neuralink, and was convinced of the company's potential by Elon Musk.

In 2016 Max Hodak co-founded the nanobiotechnology company Nerualink, with Elon Musk, Tim Hanson, Tim Gardner, Vanessa Tolosa, Ben Rapoport, Paul Merolla, Dongjin Seo, and Phillip Sabes. Neuralink is working to Hadok is currently serving as the president of Neuralink (as of 2020). Hodak told reporters he was originally skeptical about the potential of technologies in development by Neuralink, and was convinced of the company's potential by Elon Musk.

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Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist who is currently the president and co-founder of Neuralink,, and the founder and former CEO of Transcriptic and myFit.

From 2007 to 2012 Max Hodak attended Duke University where he successfully graduated with a bachelors of science in engineering degree in biomedical engineering. During his time at Duke University Hodak worked as a research assistant from February 2008 to May 2012 (4 years and 4 months) in the Duke Medical Center under the supervision of Miguel Nicolelis. whereDuring his time at the Duke Medical Center he assisted the building of brain-machine interfaces for Rhesus monkeys. When commenting on his time at Duke University, Hodak told reporters about two people he met at Duke that he attributes his success to by saying:

In January 2008 Max Hodak founded a company called myFit, a thatcompany focusedfocusing on creating software capable of forecasting the likelihood of high school students being accepted into universities. The company successfully raised a series A funding round and was bought out by Naviance in October of 2010.

In February 2012 Max Hodak founded Transcriptic, a company focusedfocusing on creating a robotic cloud laboratory for biology. The company was headquartered in Menlo Park, California and designed, built, owned, and operated automated infrastructure for molecular and cell biology laboratory research. The companies infrastructure was remotely accessible online for researchers looking to remotely operate the companiescompany's equipment through their web browser. Max Hodak left Transcriptic in November 2017 to become the co-founder and president of Neuralink.

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