Should This Exist? (Or How I Nearly Built a Weapon) | Fabrice des Mazery - CPO at Thiga @platohq
Should This Exist? (Or How I Nearly Built a Weapon) | Fabrice des Mazery - CPO at Thiga  @platohq
Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
How would you know if the risk or bad consequences of your product overcame the potential benefits? If it did, would you be ready to kill it?

Several years ago, Fabrice des Mazery - CPO at Thiga built a very promising neurotech company and chose to sell it to NASA, not to become rich, but to protect the technology from being misused. He shares with us the story and the lessons he learned to make more responsible digital products.

Deepak Paramanand - Product Leader at Hitachi moderates the talk.

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