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Cryonics has long lived on the fringe - dismissed as science fiction or Silicon Valley fantasy. But a new generation of founders is treating it as an engineering problem.
Kai Micah Mills, founder of Cryopets and Thiel Fellow, is building a company designed to preserve pets in a vitrified state immediately after death, with the long-term goal of revival once medicine advances far enough.
Behind the polarizing headlines is real scientific progress, serious capital, and a growing customer base that looks far more mainstream than most people would expect. In this conversation, Micah explains the breakthroughs already happening in cryopreservation, why thousands of pet owners have joined the waitlist, and why he believes the first practical step toward radically extended life may not begin with humans — but with the animals we love most.
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