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Paolo Pirjanian is the CEO and cofounder of the social robotics company Embodied and a general partner at Calibrate Ventures, an early stage deep tech investment firm. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
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Zac Townsend is the CEO and founder of Meanwhile, the world’s first Bitcoin native life insurer.
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Joel Anderson is the founder and CEO of ZeroMark, a defense tech startup that used AI and robotics to build a “gun that never misses” to protect warfighters from a growing drone threat.
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