Sam Koppelman
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1,054 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Sam Koppelman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As I mentioned, Brainco's advisor was the dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, who went on to become the president of the University of Virginia.
According to an interview with Bee Chang in Chinese media, he said, quote, most of our core teams are from Harvard University and the MIT Brain Science Center.
Very legit places.
And a Harvard grad named Max Newland is who became the president of Brainco USA.
He was working as a research scientist at the company when Brainco reportedly announced its seed funding round of $5 million in 2016.
A hundred percent.
Except that Hunterbrook had a reporter in Taiwan dig into the corporate records on who actually invested millions of dollars into Brainco.
And what we found was that Brainco has been repeatedly financed by Chinese state owned enterprises, including an entity inside China Electronics Corporation, which is a conglomerate that the US Defense Department has sanctioned.
Well, actually by twenty twenty four, we found that the Chinese government was just straight up investing tens of millions of dollars directly into Branco.
That's right, it was the Chinese education system, as this twenty nineteen report from the Wall Street Journal explains.
It's absolutely insane.
There was a ton of backlash, even in China.
Parents were like, I do not want the Chinese Communist Party collecting data on how well my kids are paying attention in class.
Yes.
It actually got some coverage here in the United States too.
And then between like 2020 and 2023, there was this weird era in Brain Co's history where they kind of like stopped sending out press releases.
They weren't doing as many interviews.
They began to lurk in the shadows a little bit.
Even in China people were like, what the hell is this sh-
Badly.
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