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This Silicon Valley company wants to 'make better humans' through biohacking
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoHVMN seems like your regular old supplement scam company riding a yuppie consumerist wave, probably the same consumers who were all excited about Soylent... https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/hvmnafterall/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/hvmnafterall/ From the TechCrunch article: "There’s also a snake oil stigma attached to the industry, often overlooked by the FDA. The various pills, oils (and coffees) out on the market can get expensive, and a lot of the claims out there need regular Snopes checks to protect consumers from getting suckered."
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>Brandt, the company's co-founder and COO, told CNBC at his San Francisco office. "You have inputs. You have outputs like your productivity, your reaction time, your happiness even. By better human, they appear to mean more productive. Happiness being an after thought.