Episode description
Yannick Roy is the founder of NeurotechX which is a community of neurotechnology enthusiasts with over 18,000 members from around the world started in 2014. They have also held in-person events to help bring people together. Due to this large community, Yannick has also started NeurotechX Services which brings together this large community to help companies and people.
Top 3 Takeaways:
- "we don't have any outside funding, government funding. We needed to bootstrap everything. The organization was and still is mainly volunteer-driven"
- three pillars: community, education, and, innovation
- "More money isn't necessarily a good thing because when you have too much money, then you're not necessarily smart about spending that money."
1:00 "Do you want to introduce yourself and talk a little about NeurotechX as well as some of your other stuff?"
6:30 "What do people do when they meet up? Do they just talk about how much they love neurotech or what's the agenda for the meetings?"
13:00 "What is a typical size of a meetup and then does it go like four in the morning?"
16:00 "If you were to want to start a group in your area, what would that look like?
22:00 "So have you been funded or where's the money coming from? Or is this coming out of your personal pocket?"
27:00 "Do you want to talk a little bit about NeurotechX services?"
34:30 "You've done all this while still in your PhD, right?"
40:00 "Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you wanted to mention?"