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Unlocking the Brain: Tan Le on Neurotech, AI & Human Potential
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What if you could control technology using only your thoughts?
Today on Digital Disruption, we鈥檙e joined by an expert in the space of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), Tan Le.
Tan is the founder and CEO of EMOTIV, a Silicon Valley鈥揵ased company pioneering EEG-based BCI technology. Her work centers on noninvasive 鈥渂rainwear鈥 that enables direct interaction between the human brain and computers. Tan is an advocate for democratizing neurotechnology to empower individuals, researchers, and organizations to drive innovation. In February 2020, she published her first book, "The NeuroGeneration: The New Era of Brain Enhancement Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work and Heal."
Tan sits down with Geoff to talk about how her company is making it possible to connect your brain directly to digital systems no hype, just science. From decoding mental commands to enhancing human cognition, they dive into the ethical challenges of reading brain data, what it really means to give technology access to your mind, and why noninvasive headsets are reshaping human-computer interaction.
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Geoff Nielson
Hey everyone! I'm super excited to be sitting down with Tan Le. She's one of the world's leading experts and pioneers in brain computer interface, so connecting technology right to your brain. This is one of the craziest frontiers in tech right now. And what's cool about taun is she is actually develop the technology to make it happen. What I want to know is once you cut through the hype, how advanced is this technology really?
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Geoff Nielson
What can it do for us? And why the hell would I let a company plug a device into my brain? It should be an amazing conversation. Let's find out.
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Geoff Nielson
Tan, thanks so much for joining us today. Super excited to have you on the show. I want to just start by asking kind of the big question, which is, what can you tell us about the state of brain computer interface or BCI in 2025? Where are we right now?
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Tan Le
So it's a really exciting time to be working on brain computer interface technologies, both, in terms of the implantable space, we're seeing a lot of exciting progress there. And on the noninvasive side, with the, introduction of AI and the explosion of what's possible with I was seeing a lot of interesting conversions now in the BCI space in terms of using some of these new frontier models to decode what was really complex, sets of electrical signals.
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Tan Le
And so we're starting to see really interesting evolution, both in the noninvasive as well as the invasive BCI and so at some point, I think we'll start to see more adoption in this, of this technology in the next few years.
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Geoff Nielson
So tell me a little bit more about that, that form factor, you know, you know, you talk about noninvasive as well as invasive. How is it changing and what are some of the, innovations that have, you know, come to be in the last few years or so?
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Tan Le
Brain computer interface technology is something that's pretty exciting for for a lot of people. It's intrinsically interesting. This idea that you can use your brain to control, some sort of digital or physical, experience. And so from the invasive side, which is not an area that, we work on, we've seen really exciting developments with synchrony, Neuralink both very, very exciting technologies where you're putting, you know, some sort of, like a neural lace or just a small implant, into the brain that allows, the, the implant to restore function where it's already been lost.
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Tan Le
And that's pretty amazing technology. I think on the noninvasive side, which is where we're focused on the form factor, is a radical, departure from what we've seen in the past. And I think this is where it's truly game changing, because, a lot of the noninvasive technology has been anchored around electroencephalography, which is EEG for short. This is essentially just changes in voltage fluctuations that you can observe from the surface of the scalp.
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Tan Le
Now, when you're measuring non-invasively, what you're typically using is a, an array of sensors placed on the surface of the head, and it can look like a cap. You're if people have had sleep studies or if they think about some of the imagery they might have of an EEG system, it's like a headset with an array of sensors, and it tethers the user to a station to some sort of stationary equipment.
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Tan Le
That was the kind of the standard conventional system we have over the last decade or so, seeing a whole range of different types of devices that have made it more skeletal. But now we're starting to see devices like these, which is really very small and very much like what you're wearing in your ears now. But this is going to be the new form factor for everyday consumers, right?
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Tan Le
You're going to be able to wear devices that are really small through true wireless, that are multifunction, that have this sort of utility of being a microphone, a headphone, but also can scan your brain at the same time. And I think the form factor allows us to imagine a world where millions of people will start to adopt and use this technology, and that's why BCI is so exciting to be talking about today.
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Geoff Nielson
It's it's so cool. And and the form factor to me is so is so interesting. And I guess in some ways, at least in my mind, is maybe one of the barriers that people have to adoption or has created some of the backlash around this. And I don't know if you've heard this kind of first hand or second hand, but certainly when you think about, you know, the invasive ones, things like Neuralink, I mean, certainly there's no shortage of amazing things that can do, but there's this kind of this kind of, you know, almost existential angst that we're going into this, you know, technology dystopia where, you know, we've got these devices in our
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Geoff Nielson
brain and, you know, who wants Elon Musk in our brain?
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Tan Le
All right.
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Geoff Nielson
Right. Do you see this new form factor as replacing invasive as, you know, coexisting. And, you know, what's your response to some of the, the negativity or backlash around this kind of technology?
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Tan Le
Yeah. So I think that, there will be a coexistence of this technology. I don't there's 7 billion people on the planet. Not everyone will subscribe to this notion that I want an implant in my brain, even if it's going to augment, my abilities right at the moment, it's really about restoring function. And so, depending on the cost, depending on the access, I can't really see a world where it will be universally available.
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Tan Le
What I do think will be possible is given the form factor of this device and the nature of the the technology, the underlying technology being EEG, it's an electrical signal. You're not sending signals back into the brain. It's completely safe. That's something that I can see coexisting with the sort of not a totally invasive technologies like implants. The nice thing about noninvasive technologies is it allows us to start to chart a conversation, a dialog around human augmentation.
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Tan Le
Right. What does brain augmentation mean to society? How do we navigate the questions around, you know, cognitive liberties? How do we, think about data rights? How do we think about what level of augmentation are we comfortable with as individuals, as communities, as a part of society? And how do we regulate or how do we manage these technologies and steward them in a way that's safe and inclusive and accessible to people, while making sure that individual freedoms are actually safeguarded and protected?
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Tan Le
Right now, I think all of these things are, as technology moves faster and faster, it becomes more incumbent on the people who are inventing this field to have this really active conversation, with the uses of this technology around how do we think about, you know, bringing this technology into the marketplace. And so this is, one of the things that I'm that most excites me about the noninvasive technology is that we get to have this conversation early.
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Tan Le
There's still a lot of agency in, in terms of how users can actually use this technology, because it's noninvasive. You can take the technology off very easily, right? You can choose. You have a lot of freedom to say, hey, I want to track my brain to do X, y, z. And I'm not comfortable with tracking my brain for y, right.
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Tan Le
And I'm prepared to share my data for X, but not for, for these, types of, of scenarios. And so you have a lot of choice and agency when it's a device that you choose to put on yourself, and you can very easily remove the device. And that allows us all to think about, well, what does this look like?
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Tan Le
And then as we think about the space around invasive technology, if we were to start to implant more people with devices, what does this mean? But it's really hard to take this massive leap forward and think, wow, I'm going to jump right into this world where we're going to have implants in our brains. And it's going to be managed by a corporation, and we really haven't had the opportunity to really think.
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Tan Le
And grapple with some of these really philosophical concepts around what does it mean to be human, right. And at the same time, we've got all of these advancements in artificial intelligence that's happening right now. And so what I often say is, you know, today, the next, this evolution that we're experiencing is no longer just simply defined by technology.
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Tan Le
For the last few decades, we have seen technology really drive the revolution that we experience in our daily lives. But the next revolution isn't just simply about technology. It's about intelligence. And so we're moving into this decade or this whole chapter of human evolution where, you know, our our existence is going to be about this sort of co evolution of digital and biological intelligence.
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Tan Le
And so we need this ability and this opportunity to think about what this co evolution looks like. Right. So I think it's a really it gives us a an opportunity to think about some very complex questions early.
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Geoff Nielson
Very yeah. You know very big questions too. Right. And I was wondering if you could, you know, unpack a little bit more as you, as we talk about intelligence and what that means in this kind of co-development, what does that mean to you and why should we why should people why should, you know the average listener or you know, any anyone interested in this?
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Geoff Nielson
Why should they be excited about it and thinking about how it can benefit them in their life?
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Tan Le
So for the longest time, and I think even today, we believe that the human brain is the most complex system in the known universe that we know of today. It's capable of incredible feats. It really is the seed of the self it defines, you know, our entire sense of being real. Al, the world that we experience is not a objective one.
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Tan Le
It's a subjective one that's based on the mental model that our brain creates of the world. And so each of us and our own perception, our own experience is really shaped by this 3 pound organ that sits inside our heads at the same time over the last. You know what's been breathtaking the last three years is this massive exploration and development and revolution in artificial intelligence.
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Tan Le
And this whole space around generative AI has been very, very exciting to see what we can do with large language models. And now with multimodal, usage of this technology so that you can start to see how images and videos can be and, and sound can be generated as well. Right. All alongside this, this, this domain. So it's a very exciting, kind of evolution and revolution in many ways.
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Tan Le
But you can of the way I think about it is you've got this digital and intelligent and this artificial intelligence that we're creating, and at the same time, you've got this natural biological intelligence that has existed and has been part of human evolution for millions of years. Right? So we when we think about our brain, it's nature's way of evolving.
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Tan Le
It's our way. It's our response to genetics because genetics takes a very long time. And with modernization, the brain is our way of responding to this fast moving environment. We're going to get to a point now where our modernization, our world, is even moving faster than it's ever moved before, right? The last few years, the pace of change feels like it's exponentially, moving faster and faster.
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Tan Le
It's really accelerating. And so this is how the way I think about it is, we are getting to a point where we need to see both of these types of intelligence evolving together. And so this notion of some sort of copilot or now, you know, we're now we've kind of leapfrogged to get beyond this notion of cognitive copilots, which was kind of, what people had used early on when, generative AI was introduced.
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Tan Le
And now we're starting to see this idea of a genetic, workflows. Right. So, but I what I the way I think about this notion of cognitive, copilot is this is this idea that can we use AI in a way that's more like a humanistic intelligence, right? So that these two systems can actually work together as opposed to being separate entities.
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Tan Le
So if you think about some of the old original writing by Marvin Minsky, one of the early, you know, founders of, of artificial intelligence, this is the kind of world that he was talking about, this notion of humanistic intelligence, where, you know, artificial intelligence and our biological intelligence aren't just separate entities, but they can co-evolved in a way that is quite symbiotic.
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Tan Le
And so I think this is the world that we're moving towards, where you really have this notion of humanistic intelligence, where, yes, AI is really useful and helpful to augment parts of our work. That's very toilsome. And you also have the unique parts that is intrinsically human that we can kind of use in combination of, together to create something that's much more than the sum of its parts.
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Geoff Nielson
So I, I love that as a principle. And it's really, really exciting to think about, you know, how these two components can start to, you know, work together and, you know, make us, you know, better as people are in some way, you know, enrich our lives. Can you share a little bit and maybe some of the use cases or some of the scenarios that we're finding are already starting to emerge, where we're able to see people actually adopting this sort of technology, or at least, you know, a potential use case in the future for it.
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Geoff Nielson
Yeah.
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Tan Le
So there's just so many, use cases. So one of the things that, started me down this route of working in brain computer interface technologies was the idea of being able restore function where it has been lost. Right. And so we've worked with people who have limited mobility, who maybe had as a result of an injury or an accident, lost their ability to, to move or drive a car.
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Tan Le
And we've been able to, have really exciting, scenarios where, you know, a, a the person was able to after, you know, over 20 years of not being able to drive after a, due to a carjacking incident in Brazil, being the first person in the world to drive an F1 car around a racetrack using just our technology.
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Tan Le
And, you know, a a car that had been rigged up. Right? No steering wheel, no pedals, just his brain and sensors around the car. And that's really quite incredible to see that someone can can use a noninvasive device, use the, you know, somewhat I consider the brain computer interface detections that we have now still relatively, early, rudimentary, you know, starting points.
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Tan Le
Right. Just early, proof of concepts of what is possible with BCI. But you're already starting to see some really exciting, ways that this technology can be used. And then we, we've seen in the same sort of environment, a the same sort of technology being used by a Twitch streamer to play a very complex video game, an RPG called Elden Ring and rape and beat the boss character.
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Tan Le
Right. That's really, really hard. And she, was able to play through the game, beat the boss, all using a a 14 channel noninvasive EEG. That is pretty incredible because, I think all of these, you know, you think, of gaming applications in this context, there's a lot of people excited about playing games. But, you know, maybe mind control is one aspect of it, but then is the, the, the on on one hand, you've got this ability to move the digital world, the physical world with your mind, with some, simple commands.
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Tan Le
But at the same time, the insight that you're getting into the the user's brain activity during that time, that is the the piece that I think is most interesting because for the first time, we're getting a window into the actual living, evolving brain as it's responding to the real world. And that is, to me, the biggest game changer, because our brain is designed and to evolve over the course of our life.
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Tan Le
And one of the biggest challenges with this system is that it's constantly changing, like it's it's it's made and it's in it's designed to evolve. And so if you have a system like we have today in healthcare, where we only study brains when there's something wrong with it, or we only scan your brain or even look at your brain when something's wrong with it.
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Tan Le
Let's say you have a sleep challenge, or you have an injury, like a concussion or, traumatic brain injury. You might have your brain scanned, but if you are abled body healthy person, typically you won't have your brain scanned. That's where I think the use cases become really, really exciting because we start we're starting to get a window into how the brain evolves over the lifespan, and it allows us to start to see, you know, one, how the brain changes.
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Tan Le
And that's fundamentally very interesting. But we're also able to identify as part of that potential, markers for early cognitive decline. And these are these markers are really interesting because, cognitive performance starts to decline very subtly, very silently from our 30s. And so for most of the adult population, this is something that we should all care about.
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Tan Le
And now we have, you know, rings, watches that kind of help us track our cardiovascular health. But the most vital asset that we have, our brain, we haven't had the tools to track. So I think this is something that's really exciting and it opens up the potential for applications in the workplace. It has applications, in industrial settings for safety.
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Tan Le
It has applications in learning and education in all sectors. So there's a lot of, potential in, and use cases that it opens up, downstream because of, as you said, Jeff, at the very beginning, the form factor. Right. The form factor itself has been a massive limitation. I, I've been working the space for over ten years.
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Tan Le
And, you know, I have, you know, 14 channel EEG, five channel EEG sitting in my office. But how often would I wear it? Probably once a week. You know, if there's a particular study that we're that we're looking at. But, with these, this new device, I'm collecting data on my brain several hours every day. So I think it's a it's pretty game changing to be able to be, to, to have a form factor that enables that.
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Geoff Nielson
It sounds super, super exciting. And it's it's really interesting to hear about the use cases in terms of how an individual can use the technology, but also, you know, how we can push science and medicine forward by potentially, you know, collecting, you know, more and more information about the brain that that really excites me at, like, you know, humanistic humankind level.
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Geoff Nielson
At the same time, there's I can sense maybe there's a bit of tension for people who say, okay, I'm really excited about, you know, the doors we unlock and research and medicine. So at the same time, I'm not comfortable with the idea that you're studying my brain and you're sending data away about my brain. Right? Like, if I'm someone who's like, well, in cognitive decline in my 40s, in my 50s, maybe I'm still in the workforce.
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Geoff Nielson
I don't want that revealed. Right? Maybe that threatens my livelihood. How do you how do you see those kind of coexisting and how do you marry that? In a way, your.
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Tan Le
Data has to belong to you, right? You have to have agency over your data. Our job is to provide insights to you so that you can where to look after your brain. You can protect your brain. You can keep its resilience. Our job is not to share it with your, you know, employer or your friends even. Right? That's if you want to share it.
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Tan Le
It's incumbent on you to decide who, and how you want to share it. It's not up to us to share it. Our job is to, you know, help you understand your brain and how it's changing and then what activities you're participating and how that's actually shaping your brain over the lifespan so that you can make better, more informed choices, to look after your brain, because that's the that's the ultimate goal for us, is to make sure that, you know, we can solve the challenge that exists today at a macro level, that 1 in 3 people will have some sort of will experience, some sort of neurological impairment in their lifetime.
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Tan Le
That's a really scary number. So in my family of three, so my husband, myself, my little girl, it's really terrifying to know that one out of the three of us will be impacted by some sort of neurological impairment in our lifetime, right? That that's a really sobering number when it comes down to that little tiny little family unit.
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Tan Le
And that's the number of people that this affects. And so we've got to have better ways of looking after our brain. We need to have better tools. The technology is there now for us to do that. It's really about making sure that, the players in this space act in a responsible all manner so that trust and confidence is built up in the community.
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Tan Le
I think that's very, very important because at the end of the day, you're absolutely right, Jeff. You don't want this data shared. For the wrong reasons. Right? You don't want somebody who you have no intention of sharing that data with to know some very intimate details about your cognitive state. Right. I certainly don't want, you know, even if I'm just navigating the internet, for someone to know, you know, that kind of piqued my interest.
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Tan Le
I really don't want them to know that level of intimate detail. It's fine for me to know and for me to have insight into myself. That's very, That's actually quite helpful for me to know. You know what's emotionally charged? What? What things? Right. Really captivate my, my share. I want which parts of the information that I'm reading gets.
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Tan Le
It's caught my emotional, interest. And then it's going to be kind of locked into my memory faster, and that's going to be able to be recalled more effectively for me. That's interesting for me to know, especially when I'm trying to learn a language or let's say I'm doing Duolingo and I'm not really focused. It's great if I can go back to those sessions and it just knows, right?
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Tan Le
This is so I can see these tools being really helpful for me, but not not to be used against me. And so that's the key, right? So if I want to share that information with my mom or my sister or my husband, sure, fine. But I've got to have that choice. And I think that's the key is for, all of us who are working in this space, that's what we're trying to design for, is this notion that, you know, the data belongs to the user.
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Tan Le
Our job is to make sure that we can provide the best service that we can, given the information that we're getting back from the user. But they need to be able to make the decision as to how they want to share that data. And, we're very careful about how it's shared as well, because we don't want let's say, for example, you say, hey, I want to share my specific data so that I can play this game or I can take this meditation, activity.
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Tan Le
Well, we only want to share that portion of data when you're doing the meditation activity or when you're playing that game. And the only the data sets that's not necessary for that interaction and not everything else. Right. Because you don't want to inadvertently share. Yeah. All of the other things that you might not necessarily want to share. So you've got to kind of design in privacy by design as a part of the the way you're thinking about these systems.
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Geoff Nielson
Got it. No, it makes it makes complete sense. And, you know, I'm very happy in some ways to hear how front and center this is for you as you think about, you know, designing this type of interface. I did want to flip to the other side of this, which is, you know, you said something earlier, which was that this is, if I heard you correctly, this is potentially an opportunity for 7 billion people.
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Geoff Nielson
This is not just for people who have been through a traumatic injury. There's value here. There's something that every person on the planet can get out of a device like this. I mean, first of all, do you agree with that? Is that a statement you stand behind?
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Tan Le
Yeah, absolutely. That this is why we created the technology, and this is why we specifically chose EEG as the underlying technology, because it's something that's safe. It's very similar to an EKG. Right. So an electrocardiogram. So it's still looking an electrical signal instead of looking at the heart. It's looking at the brain. So it's it's a very safe type of measurement because we're not sending any signals in.
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Tan Le
And we chose that very specifically because we wanted to be able to use it, as many people to use it as possible.
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Geoff Nielson
Right. So, so with that in mind, I mean, do you have kind of an elevator pitch or like, what do you think is going to be the the primary reason that people say, sign me up? I, I need one of those, I want to wear one of those. What's like the what's the top line benefit there?
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Tan Le
For us, it's really about safeguarding brain health and resilience over the lifespan. So this is the this is the the at the heart of what we do when we're thinking about the consumer space. Every single person wants to, should want to safeguard their brain because there's no point in living, you know, a lot of there's a lot of effort to live longer.
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Tan Le
Yes. But what's the point if you can't recognize your loved ones, if you can't have a coherent conversation? And this the brain is very much like a muscle that we need to exercise. We need to continue to challenge, we need to look after. And so what we want to do is give tools to everyday people so that you can actually know exactly how you're using your brain.
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Tan Le
Right? We're we're giving people metrics around their stress balance or stress is one thing that's really, really cognitive stress. We're not talking about, you know, physiological stress. We're talking about cognitive stress. So stress can be positive, but it can also be negative. Right. So you can have positive stress. So let's say just before speak a public speaking event you're going to feel some sort of anxiety.
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Tan Le
That's actually good. It helps you focus. It helps you perform better. That's perfectly fine. The long sustained stress that's that's so we actually track this notion of stress balance so that you can see how often you are in this zone of positive stress versus going into this really negative stress. And if it's prolonged durations, you need to kind of, start to look out for that because it can be an early indicator of cognitive decline.
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Tan Le
You know, we look at, mental activity. So your brain, as I said, is like a muscle to think of it like a, a tracker, a step tracker. But for your brain, how much of your brain do you actually use? Are you giving it enough challenge because it wants challenge? It's a very sophisticated learning system. So it wants to learn.
00;28;31;23 - 00;28;55;06
Tan Le
It innately, intrinsically wants to and needs to learn and be challenged. Are you challenging it? Are you giving it sufficient challenge so we can track that for you? So you can see, oh yeah, I'm you're at the 90th percentile for my age group or am I kind of fledgling in the 20s and 30s? What can I do better to kind of get it up there into the, the the top end of the spectrum.
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Tan Le
And then we track cognitive fitness, which is essentially how does your brain, how does it recover? Right. Of course, we're going to need to use your brain. Sometimes it's going to be a heavy day. Sometimes it's going to be a little bit less than some, recovery time. But how do how does it perform over a not in the in bursts but over sort of a, a three week period so that you can start to see some trends, emerging in terms of your cognitive fitness.
00;29;21;22 - 00;29;40;11
Tan Le
And so there's a lot of activities that you can participate in, as well. But the idea is that gives you a general way to understand how you're using your brain so that you can look after your brain better and hopefully we can all maintain a cognitively resilient brain, for as long as possible.
00;29;40;13 - 00;29;57;19
Geoff Nielson
So with that, with that in mind, do you see this in your mind as an extension of, you know, some of the existing fitness wearables that people have? You know, there's different form factors, whether it's a ring or a band or there's something about the fact that it's your brain, make it fundamentally different from those.
00;29;57;21 - 00;30;27;10
Tan Le
So, you can think about it like a wearable tracker. The only thing is no wearable tracker. Actually is able to give you insight into your brain. They can try to give analogs for how well you sleep. It can give you, analogs for your, readiness, which is based on your heart rate and your sleep patterns that it's hard to be able to know in the moment how your brain is actually tuning in.
00;30;27;10 - 00;30;58;16
Tan Le
Is it able to pay attention? Is it really cognitively stressed, by this activity or not? Right. The actual measurement and the inside of what how you're using your brain is very difficult to get an analog for using your heart, or your, your skin temperature, as a proxy. And so the, the biggest difference is that we're actually measuring your brain and the activity in your brain directly, as opposed to using other analogs for that.
00;30;58;16 - 00;31;18;17
Tan Le
And so I think it's, it's but yes, it's think about it the same way, except you're not measuring your heart. You're at all that organ. You're measuring your your brain, which I think is the most important thing that we need to track. And it's a missing piece, right? It's a missing part of the puzzle in terms of our overall well-being.
00;31;18;19 - 00;31;26;06
Geoff Nielson
Right. So so this in some ways is kind of the next frontier or the final frontier of understanding ourselves and our own, you know?
00;31;26;06 - 00;31;46;10
Tan Le
Absolutely. Right. Yeah. Think about that in that way with the for the first time, we will have a window into our, our brain and we'll be able to look after our brain. We'll have unprecedented information about how brain is changing and evolving based on the, the, the lived experience that we have every day.
00;31;46;12 - 00;32;04;13
Geoff Nielson
It's yeah, it's so amazing. And there's, as you said, there's just so many things it can potentially unlock for us. I'm thinking more about use cases. I know there's a few more, that have been on your mind. Some of the ones I'm thinking about, our workplace wellness and safety can you talk a little bit more about some of the applications in those spaces?
00;32;04;14 - 00;32;38;12
Tan Le
Yes. So if you think about safety, in the workplace or accidents in the workplace, there is a, you know, you could get, repeated, you know, stress injury right from doing a task over long periods of time repeatedly. But they're the most of the really bad accidents happen because you've lost your attention. Whether you're you are distracted, whether you're task switching and you've lost focus on the primary tasks or you fatigued.
00;32;38;14 - 00;32;58;21
Tan Le
And so that is really, really critical. And the brain is the best place to actually measure that. Right. So yes, you could have repeated strain injury and things like that. And that can be quite debilitating. But I think one of the the scariest types of injuries and accidents that happen in the workplace happen when you lose your attention.
00;32;58;21 - 00;33;26;19
Tan Le
And in that sort of industrial setting, we're not talking about knowledge workers in particular in this case. Right. But, that's really, really helpful to be able to have an indication so that, you can stop equipment and prevent injury when people have lost their attention. And we we've seen this with drivers, for example, where we are, able to track drivers on the road and yes, that they're paying attention, right, to the, the driving.
00;33;26;19 - 00;33;52;03
Tan Le
But then they, they task switch and they might change the music channel or they might grab something from the backseat or, and every time you toss which you lose the ability to kind of pay attention back to the primary task. And on a when you're driving very quickly that can that can kill you basically. And so really raising awareness even on the roads has been really, really effective, with this technology in the past.
00;33;52;03 - 00;34;15;09
Tan Le
And that's what we've done on the safety side in the workplace for knowledge workers, it's really about understanding burnout, right? So if you think about the, the work that we do and the the level of cognitive requirements that exists in today's modern workplaces, it's really, really important that we actually understand and take care of our burnout before it's too late.
00;34;15;12 - 00;34;32;07
Tan Le
It's unlike the scales where you can hop on and you can say, oh, wow, maybe I shouldn't have that cake, or maybe I won't have a glass of wine because I'm 1 or 2 pounds over what I want to be. Right. You can modulate very easily if you just, And you can you or you don't fit into your jeans or something like that.
00;34;32;07 - 00;35;12;22
Tan Le
But with your brain, it's really, really difficult. We, we start to kind of get used to a certain type of work and the just the relentless nature of what we're doing, and we try to push ourselves that much harder. And it's only when we take ten days off. And in the US, what's really amazing for me in North America in particular, because I'm from Australia, we actually have longer breaks and what was really surprising to me when I moved to the US is how uncommon it is for people to take long breaks, but when you take a long break, that's when you finally realize after, say, 5 or 6 days of doing absolutely nothing, that
00;35;12;22 - 00;35;39;20
Tan Le
you realize how highly strung you were because you realized, wow, it took me that much time to notice how hard I have been running right mentally. And so it's quite difficult for us to notice these metrics and so one of the nice things about having this is I can actually see it. I can see it in my statistics, which weeks are really grueling for me.
00;35;39;20 - 00;36;05;19
Tan Le
And the types of tasks. And I can really start to modulate when I take a break, even if I'm doing a Pomodoro. I've just been cognizant of, okay, I'm going to do 52 minutes of really intense focus work, and then I'm going to give myself my brain a break, go for a walk around the block, right? Go up and down the stairs, do something that just gives my brain that mental break and I come back more refreshed.
00;36;05;24 - 00;36;33;03
Tan Le
That's so much more helpful. Then just trying to work through and we've worked with organizations like Dell to actually study, the potential of using breaks to prevent burnout. And what we found was very it's something quite intuitive, right? If everyone if you keep working, there will be a point where you will experience cognitive fatigue. And if you keep trying to work through it, you'll cognitive performance will actually decline.
00;36;33;05 - 00;37;08;22
Tan Le
Whether you try, try to work, keep working or not. If you take a break and you come back, you'll actually come back slightly lower than where you picked off, but you actually will do better than if you had kept working. But if you actually take breaks, that is kind of powered by AI. Well, where we actually understand and we are tuned into what kind of breaks best suit you, and you take the breaks when we recommend them to you based on when your brain needs it, you actually come back better than you were before you stopped, right?
00;37;08;22 - 00;37;33;11
Tan Le
And so you're actually gaining a lot of, productive time. Not by working more, but actually by taking the necessary breaks by 5 to 15 minute breaks throughout the day can do miracles for your productivity. But we kind of need the tools because you don't want to just take random breaks all over the day. We want to take really thoughtful breaks that help you, perform at your best.
00;37;33;11 - 00;37;52;24
Tan Le
And what I found that's most amazing for me is just the the time blocking. It's the ability to kind of block out time for deep work because we need that. Otherwise it's just so frenetic. You kind of task switching all day long and you're and doing a whole bunch of different things and responding to emails and doing that sort of thing.
00;37;52;24 - 00;38;10;16
Tan Le
But I kind of like to do that, in the chunk and then have really good focus time for deep work. And that's really, really important. I find that's when I can be most productive. So it's nice where and I see that, and I find the optimal time during the day to be able to to do that for myself.
00;38;10;19 - 00;38;33;06
Geoff Nielson
I love that. And it's so it's so important and so overlooked. I was talking to someone, I think it was Daniel Pink or something who is talking about this mindset shift, that a break is not an interruption to your productivity. It's actually a component of your productivity. Right? That it actually it makes you more productive. And so it's so fascinating that's actually being supported by you know.
00;38;33;06 - 00;38;53;15
Tan Le
It's absolutely right. Because, you know, so by taking those 5 to 15 minute breaks, you're actually gaining three hours of productive time out of a 40 hour workweek. So it's not by working more. And he's right that it is a component. And is yeah. It's not actually taking time away from from work. It's actually a necessary part.
00;38;53;19 - 00;39;06;18
Tan Le
We're not a machine. We do need to to, you know, look after our bodies and our minds, and nurture that engine, and that asset, so, so that it can work optimally and perform.
00;39;06;18 - 00;39;25;11
Geoff Nielson
So on that note, you know, those last two use cases, there's one that's very employee focused. It's very us as people focus as an individual, how can I be more productive? How can I know myself better? How can I take better care of my mental health? That's the safety one. Yeah, I guess it's us focus. But a little bit of it is almost employer focused.
00;39;25;11 - 00;39;44;25
Geoff Nielson
How can we run a safer organization? You in the use cases you've seen, do you see kind of an enterprise or a business connection here? What's the what's the relationship between organizations and this technology? Are they going to be playing a big role here or is it purely kind of person to person?
00;39;44;27 - 00;40;18;22
Tan Le
All absolutely. There is a lot of enterprise use cases. So on the from the workplace, well-being, standpoint. Absolutely. Right. A lot of organizations want to better understand how their employees can how to create even better workplaces that support different types of work. So we've done, collaborations with JLL, for example, to really understand how do you actually design workplace pieces that kind of honor individuals that that spend time in those environments?
00;40;18;22 - 00;40;46;10
Tan Le
Or can we create environments that are really far more collaborative, that kind of take down the stress in high intensity or high pressure? Conversations? Can you create environments that really support teamwork and collaboration? Can you create environments that really support deep work for when people come in? But they do need that that time to just cocoon themselves to do that, that deep work.
00;40;46;10 - 00;41;11;23
Tan Le
And so being able to understand the design for that and, and recognize the brain signatures that are associated with those states, really helps organizations design for, the individuals that use that space. Right? So we've done a lot of work from that standpoint. We've also done work, with enterprise, which is a completely different, area outside of the workplace.
00;41;11;23 - 00;41;33;16
Tan Le
Well, this area, but more around product intelligence. So think about the insights that you can get, right? Well, every single organization exists to create some sort of to, to provide some sort of product, whether it's a digital product, a, physical product or service to end customer. It's still some sort of product that you're trying to provide for a user.
00;41;33;19 - 00;42;01;27
Tan Le
And it's quite difficult to know what users feel about your product. A lot of the conventional methods we use around surveys, questionnaires, focus groups kind of fall short of really understanding the true experience that the customer has about a product. And so we're able to the help organizations get through insights through brain activity and brain measurements. Right.
00;42;02;03 - 00;42;27;27
Tan Le
How someone is actually experiencing a product, you know, the friction points that exist where when does the frustration kick in? At what moments? You know, when are they most excited and can you sustain that? You know, if you're creating a, a movie or a show or a, a TV show, how do you actually create and create that journey through that narrative in a way that really appeals to the audience segments?
00;42;28;00 - 00;43;11;22
Tan Le
And it's quite interesting. I remember sitting in one of the, the studies where, you know, we had brain scanners on and we also had a focus group, session afterwards. And it was interesting how much more nuance we could get from brain, the brain information, because we knew exactly which character, which individual, how individuals responded to when the the character was murdered versus what they were saying in the focus group session, which kind of gravitated to one central, theme, but kind of missed a lot of nuance that was revealed in the the actual data.
00;43;11;22 - 00;43;23;05
Tan Le
So I think there's a lot that, enterprises can also glean from using this technology in a completely different way, more around product intelligence as opposed for workplace wellness.
00;43;23;07 - 00;43;49;23
Geoff Nielson
It's it's super, super cool. And as someone who has a background in product and, and marketing, you know, my gears are turning because I'm thinking about like, oh, yeah, like, I would want to know that about my customers or my, you know, potential customers. I still find myself coming back to this central tension of, yes, people wanting people wanting these tools for themselves, but worried about, you know, organizations being invited into their brain.
00;43;49;25 - 00;44;09;26
Geoff Nielson
My my thought Tarnas you were talking about some of these stories is I have to imagine the day is coming soon or it's already here where an organization is going to say, if you want to be employed with us or you want to be employed in this role, it is required that you have a brain computer interface, that you have a device that you wear for this.
00;44;09;29 - 00;44;17;21
Geoff Nielson
And I, I don't know if it's already here or not, but I mean, my mind and like my mind immediately goes to like severance, which I like the, you know, which.
00;44;17;24 - 00;44;19;18
Tan Le
Is not.
00;44;19;20 - 00;44;42;29
Geoff Nielson
Which is not is a great show. But but that's that's not what this is. But it's really easy, I think, for people to imagine that there's like, this nefarious. Yeah, there's this nefarious use versus how do I keep people safe. Yeah. You know, the, the newspaper headlines right themselves. And so my question for you is, given that we're like, we're going to be approaching this.
00;44;43;01 - 00;44;59;27
Geoff Nielson
And we believe that the benefits here favor the individual. Yes. How do we how do we tell that story? How do we bring people on board without creating this backlash of get my company out of my brain?
00;44;59;29 - 00;45;28;13
Tan Le
I think it has to start with the fact that the individuals need to kind of sign on for this first. Right? And I, I actually find that the distance now between a CEO and an individual in that organization is very short. That distance, that power distance is very short. And so organizations need to trade on trust and reputation and credibility and authenticity more and more so.
00;45;28;13 - 00;46;00;29
Tan Le
And I find that the players that have true longevity in any domain need to have that, in order to survive long term. And so I actually, I'm, I have a stronger faith in humanity and in, in our own innate sense of justice and what's right for the greater good. And so I don't think that organizations that will, unless they're using it as a way to protect employees.
00;46;00;29 - 00;46;21;07
Tan Le
So let's say, for example, you're operating heavy equipment and you need to wear a cap, or you're driving on the roads and you're doing long stretches. Let's say you're driving a truck across the country, and we need to make sure that your your actually not sleeping at the wheel for your own safety, but for the safety of others.
00;46;21;09 - 00;46;50;14
Tan Le
Where there's really strong considerations for that. I think people will tolerate and accept that that is part of, the role that I am participating in, a role that requires me to, hold myself to certain standards. And that means that I want to be in my best peak, you know, at my peak cognitive state, when I'm driving across the country or something like that, or if I'm operating heavy machinery.
00;46;50;17 - 00;47;16;16
Tan Le
But for knowledge workers, I think if you go too far and you use it as a surveillance tool, I don't think that the company will lost. I think the backlash as society will be too great. You won't. You know, there was a maybe the war on talent is not, as strong in some areas right now. We might feel that way, but I actually think that there is always an innate war on the best talent.
00;47;16;18 - 00;47;51;27
Tan Le
There is always, no matter what the economic environment is, there is always going to be room for you if you want the best. And every company strives to attract and retain the best individuals for their organization. And so you need to hold yourself to a certain level and standard in order to attract that caliber of talent. And so I don't believe that we will kind of go down to, you know, the bottom of the barrel, like, okay, everyone's going to be, tracked and monitored because we're just cogs in a wheel.
00;47;51;27 - 00;48;19;23
Tan Le
I actually think that the trend now, with the augmentation and the use of AI is that we will have less, need for we will have so much automation that the, the jobs that will be available will require people who have, you know, strong talent. And for that, those people to want to join organizations, they will need to be really traded really well.
00;48;19;23 - 00;48;40;10
Tan Le
Right. And so part of the equation is to say, hey, we care about your your well-being. We're going to give you the tools to support that. But it's really up to you. Right. Like we'll give you the tools. And so I know a lot of organizations offer, will offer tools and options for employees to, you know, go to the gym and do, you know, care for themselves.
00;48;40;10 - 00;49;07;18
Tan Le
But it's not a, it's a choice that you have, as, as opposed to something that you we're going to use to survey you. So I don't, I don't think that will actually happen. And maybe I'm, too optimistic about humanity, but I think that the trends are such that we won't see that happen because we will need to have, we will need to preserve the best lines in the organization I do.
00;49;07;18 - 00;49;38;29
Geoff Nielson
I love that optimism. And, you know, you've got you've got a unique a unique take on this. And you put a lot of emphasis, even for employees on the individual, on what the individual brings here, which is really, really cool. And I've heard you say before ten that, you know, when you think about leadership, when you think about what people can bring to an organization, you know, you think about the value that, asking candid questions can bring, the value of being an outsider or having that kind of individualistic experience.
00;49;39;01 - 00;50;00;05
Geoff Nielson
Yes, it can actually drive. And, you know, to me that's refreshing because it's, you know, for anyone listening, it's kind of the opposite of being a cog in a machine, right? It's saying you as an individual bring something. And so I'm curious, you know, in your own life as a leader, how that's impacted you and how that's impacted the people you know, you work with and surround yourself with?
00;50;00;08 - 00;50;26;06
Tan Le
I think, we're all a product of our lived experience. And for me, I've always somehow found myself as an outsider in many cases and most of the throughout my career. And, when I was younger, I saw it as a big impediment to my, my, you know, to my comfort. Right? I never felt like I fit in.
00;50;26;13 - 00;51;01;11
Tan Le
I always felt like I was an underdog. But I think, as I spent more and more time kind of fitting into my own shoes and getting more comfortable within my own skin, I realized that I needed to embrace this much more because the diversity of perspectives, the difference in ideas that come from not being the expert in the room the incumbent allows you to really, really see things differently, to to challenge the status quo.
00;51;01;11 - 00;51;20;11
Tan Le
And I, I often think when I think about my little girl, I want her to think that she can create the world that she wants, right? Rather than to accept it for what it is. And so that that mindset that you can, you can make things better or you can do things on your own terms is really, really great.
00;51;20;11 - 00;51;54;13
Tan Le
And so for us, as an organization, we like a combination of institutional knowledge. That's really important, right? The people that have been here for a while allows that continuity of thought, of vision, of purpose. But we do want to sprinkle that with fresh perspectives because that outside interview is so valuable. The first six months when someone has just joined the organization and they have so many questions out of true, genuine curiosity.
00;51;54;13 - 00;52;28;20
Tan Le
And that's what I love the most the genuine curiosity that a new comer has. Right? Why? Why do we do it like that? And it's such a great question because why do we do it like that? Maybe we've done it like that because someone, you know, five years ago thought that was a good idea then, or they just took a shortcut that, you know, just asking the question from, not from a place of, you know, of, like criticism, but really just out of genuine curiosity is what I love the most.
00;52;28;20 - 00;52;50;06
Tan Le
And I think that's what the the different perspectives and the diversity of ideas brings to the table. So we we love that very much. And so the outside in is something we want to cultivate as much as possible. And so you need that renewal in the organization. I find it quite challenging when there's too much new and not enough of it.
00;52;50;08 - 00;53;07;29
Tan Le
So you and you need to find that balance, right? I do love the institutional knowledge base as well, because it provides that that foundation, that understanding, that continuity. But you do need to sprinkle it with some, some fresh ideas. If we seek it out, that's much as possible.
00;53;08;01 - 00;53;20;12
Geoff Nielson
Right. Which is which is awesome. And you still want to have it sounds like, you know, a culture that still binds everyone, but they're invited to make sure that they're they're bringing themselves and they're, you know, being an individual within, you.
00;53;20;12 - 00;53;59;08
Tan Le
Know, one of the things that, was really interesting for me is the the key for me is when you hire a new person, once you've decided that they're the right person for your organization, is to how is to quickly establish such a rapport and such a trust and confidence that they can be there for self. That's the most important thing that you can do for a for someone that joins your organization is empower them to be themselves and to speak their mind right, and to show up fully as themselves.
00;53;59;08 - 00;54;23;19
Tan Le
Because, you know, when someone's new, they will they will want to please the people that they're around. They want to fit in. That's a very natural human instinct is to want to kind of fit in and be a part of the crew. But what's really key, at least for me, is to somehow surround that person with enough, trust and support that they feel that they can just be themselves.
00;54;23;19 - 00;54;47;05
Tan Le
And that's, I think, the hardest thing that a leader needs to kind of inspire and deliver in order to bring out the best performers in that team. And so if you can do that and you can have individuals that can beat them full selves as quickly as possible, then you've won, right? When you haven't been able to do that, that's when you lose and you lose on that individual's ability to fully contribute to the organization.
00;54;47;05 - 00;55;07;09
Tan Le
And so I think that's really important. One of my girlfriends ran a company that she call, that's called, Flora, which is, like sea turtles. And I think about that all the time. I love the analog. And, if you think about the treacherous path of sea turtles as they go into the sea, like they live such long lives.
00;55;07;09 - 00;55;29;21
Tan Le
So do you think about a life of a turtle? It is so, so rich and long. But that trip to the ocean is treacherous, right? And so you think about every new person as, like a little sea turtle, right? They you sea turtle. You have to nurture them so that they can get into the ocean so that they can prosper and they can contribute.
00;55;29;21 - 00;55;46;17
Tan Le
They can they can have long longevity in the organization. But that path is really hard. So how do you make that on voting journey as successful as possible? It's you know, you've got to invest some time in that. So I think that's really important. So you know they all our little sea turtles when they first join.
00;55;46;20 - 00;56;16;07
Geoff Nielson
Oh wow. No I I've never thought about that. That's really cool. That's like I'm still just kind of processing and digesting that. You know, I wanted to ask you a little bit about your journey, I guess. And I know, you know, it's a little bit personal. So. So forgive me for you as you told your story a little bit and you talked about being an outsider, you know, you're, you know, if I'm like, you're an Australian Vietnamese woman working in California in a high tech.
00;56;16;13 - 00;56;44;03
Geoff Nielson
And if you would describe it, it sounds like somewhere in your journey, all of those things became a superpower for you versus, you know, being any sort of, you know, drag or any sort of handicap. So I wanted to ask, you know, when and how did that come about? And, you know, what would you say to people who are still on that journey and maybe haven't gotten to that inflection point yet to help them, you know, experience that themselves?
00;56;44;07 - 00;57;14;02
Tan Le
That's really interesting. And I don't know at what moment it happened for me either. But there was one. It did eventually become a realization that when you're very unusual. Right. And I remember one of the very first when I was the I, I got into law school and I remember the very first, lecture that we heard from when we were the incoming students.
00;57;14;02 - 00;57;31;19
Tan Le
It was around the fact that there are way too many kids wanting to do law, and way too many. You think you're that you know because you need high marks to get into law. And yes, so you think you're great, but in fact, there's way too many of you and the profession has no space for lawyers. And then he said something that was really profound.
00;57;31;19 - 00;57;55;11
Tan Le
There's always room at the top. And that really stuck with me. And I think that if you really, really hone your craft and you work really, really hard, it doesn't matter what area it is. You just have to be the best. And if you're the best at what you do, it doesn't matter. What it is, it could be any field, but you will be able to.
00;57;55;13 - 00;58;18;21
Tan Le
There is always room for you if you are the best. And I think that's the only thing that matters, is that if you can find that sweet spot for you where, you can show up and be your absolute best, and people recognize that you are the best at that thing, then that's just sweet spot. And once you found that sweet spot, there is always a place for you, right?
00;58;18;21 - 00;58;46;02
Tan Le
You can be, you know, whatever it is, it doesn't matter. But you'll have a seat at the table. And that's that's the only that's that's the goal. The goal is to somehow get there and then once you are, and then if you happen to be very different at that point with, you know, like an Asian woman with, from another place, you just have an unfair advantage because you're different at that point.
00;58;46;02 - 00;59;07;21
Tan Le
And so I think once you have had that opportunity, you have, you have a distinct advantage at that point because you're so unusual. And so that's I think that's a it's a different, you've kind of walk into a different place, but I think at the, the first goal is just to be the best. Yeah. What you do.
00;59;07;22 - 00;59;30;11
Geoff Nielson
That's awesome. Yeah. That's that's really, really interesting. I really like that. So as you look out about your path forward, your journey where it takes you from you from here is you keep trying to be the best. What's what's most exciting to you in terms of your own personal journey as well as with this technology. And you know, where you and where the technology go next.
00;59;30;13 - 00;59;56;10
Tan Le
So we are really we are very early on this journey. It seems strange that we've been working on this for over a decade, and we still feel that we are still early on in this journey. And this is because we're very intentional in the phases that we built this technology. The first phase was really to democratize access to neuroscience technology and put it into the hands of neuroscience researchers in over 140 countries.
00;59;56;10 - 01;00;20;29
Tan Le
At this point, that was that kind of underpins everything that we do. Is the discovery, the science of what's possible with this technology. And that's that's our first phase. The second phase is really to unlock value to enterprises and corporations. And that's what we've been. This journey over the last three years is really focused on that and unlocking value for enterprises and organizations.
01;00;21;02 - 01;00;48;02
Tan Le
We're now at this inflection point where we're moving into consumers and really trying to unlock value for everyone. And so this is the next stage for us, which also will open the downstream opportunities around the clinical and medical applications for private individuals as well, because at the end of the day, if you're tracking your brain and you're able to look after it and you're the lucky two thirds that nothing goes wrong with your brain, that's fantastic.
01;00;48;02 - 01;01;05;22
Tan Le
You're going to preserve your brain at the most optimal state that it can be. And but what if you're if you happen to be in the unlucky third that has some sort of trajectory that's, not where you want it to go. What can we do for you then? Well, how can we how can we intervene? What can we do?
01;01;05;24 - 01;01;29;28
Tan Le
And can we have clinical interventions in that point. And so that's where that's where we see the future is to kind of dovetail the consumer piece with also some clinical interventions as well. So a lot to do. We are still yeah. You know, still working. It's a work in progress, but it's very exciting. And I feel really, energized by what we do.
01;01;29;29 - 01;01;51;14
Tan Le
I feel very blessed and grateful that I found something that to work on, that I'm truly passionate about. And it doesn't feel like work. It feels really exciting. And I love it, I enjoy it, I enjoy the challenge, and I enjoy the potential to make a positive impact. I feel grateful for the privilege of being able to work on something so meaningful while.
01;01;51;14 - 01;02;12;23
Geoff Nielson
And it's it's so amazing to be able to work on something that's so net new, right, that there's additionality here and and to be actually, you know, breaking down these barriers and creating, you know, this technology and you know, these capabilities that have never existed before. So, I'm really excited to see where it goes. I'm really excited to see where you go.
01;02;12;26 - 01;02;18;07
Geoff Nielson
And I just wanted to say, you know, a big thank you for sharing. You know, your thoughts and your insights with us on the show today.
01;02;18;09 - 01;02;20;00
Tan Le
Thank you for having me. Check. Actually.


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