While at YC, Altman had also signed up with a $10,000 deposit to be on the wait list of a controversial startup called Nectome, which had been in one of the accelerator’s batches. Ripped straight out of science fiction, Nectome was pitching a service that would cryogenically freeze customers’ brains to one day—potentially hundreds of years into the future—upload to a computer after scientists had cracked the technology to do so. The catch was that Nectome needed the person’s brain to be fresh for the preservation to work. To Antonio Regalado, cofounder Robert McIntyre called his product “100
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