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Justin Cohen is the founder of Maritime Fusion, a company developing compact tokamak fusion reactors specifically designed to power large vessels.
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Tara Tan is founder and general partner at Strange Ventures, an early-stage fund investing in inventor-CEOs building the future of computing.
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