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For nearly two decades, he has built the teams and ventures that move emerging technology out of the lab and into the real world.","Before Aligned, Kyle was a Partner at Sandbox Industries and President of Singularity Labs at Singularity University, which acquired Uncommon Partners, the firm he co-founded and led as CEO, in 2019. Before that, he founded Lowe's Innovation Labs, where his team put augmented and virtual reality, autonomous retail robots, and wearable robotics into practice, and even sent a 3D printer to the International Space Station. He also built a technology lab and incubator in Bangalore, India.","Kyle is co-author of Leading Transformation (Harvard Business Review), a guide to using narrative, behavioral science, and applied neuroscience to drive change beyond the incremental. He serves on the boards of emerging technology companies, is on the faculty of Singularity University, and previously sat on the XPRIZE Foundation Innovation Board. 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