Major VC Firm President Paid $10,000 to Preserve His Brain After Death

Sam Altman, the president at Y Combinator, one of the largest early-stage technology venture capital firms globally, has paid $10,000 to preserve his brain and potentially upload his memories to the cloud after his death. Earlier this week, MIT Technology Review reported about a startup that is providing a mind-uploading service through a process that is 100 percent fatal. In a nutshell, Nectome’s mind uploading service is a post-mortem process that would allow future data scientists to integrate an individual’s mind into a computer. Nectome’s cofounder, Robert McIntyre, an MIT graduate, told MIT Technology Review that the startup’s preserve-your-brain-and-upload-it service