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Emergent Ventures

Summary

Emergent Ventures is a grant program founded by economist Tyler Cowen at the Mercatus Center, providing small, fast grants to ambitious individuals pursuing high-variance ideas in technology, social change, and ideas.

Core Contribution

Created a fast, low-bureaucracy grant model for supporting talented individuals; funded many prominent figures in AI safety, tech, and the intellectual ecosystem.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • philanthropy
  • grants
  • intellectual funding
  • libertarian ideas

Historical Influences

Tyler Cowen libertarian thought venture philanthropy

Intellectual Lineage

Tyler Cowen Mercatus Centerlibertarian philanthropy

Contemporaries & Peers

Peter Thiel fellowshipsOpen Philanthropy

Minds Influenced

Grant funding modelintellectual philanthropy

Intellectual Posterity

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