Tech entrepreneur

Tyler Hayes

Founder/CEO of Atom Limbs, an AI Prosthetics company developing breakthrough artificial arms. Atom's mission is to restore profound physical ability. We're starting with 100M people worldwide with limb loss or difference who are tragically-underserved by prosthetics today.



Previously, I was co-founder of second-generation Bebo (acquired, Amazon), Founder/CEO of Prime (#1 Health app, App Store), and employee #10 at Disqus (YC S07; acquired, Zeta Global) where I led both Product and Community teams.



I was also Executive Producer of Minka, a film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home. Winner, Best Documentary Short, Florida Film Festival. Directed by Davina Pardo.

Essays


  • Startups = growth. Growth = friction, removed.

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    Growth comes from the market, not you. Your job as a founder is to let growth happen and get out of the way.

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  • Do it on your way to something else.

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    Our autonomous car future will be weird, but also very familiar.

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  • You’re Only Going to Live for 10,000 Days

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    Less than 12,000 waking days of your life are fully under your control.

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