How can we fix the Market for Solutions?

-What if there were incentives — or requirements — for large institutions to create sandboxes where authorized Builders can access real problems and testbed ideas?

How many would-be innovators stay out of the Market for Solutions because the right risk financing doesn’t exist for them?

How many highly-educated, ambitious college grads and FAANG alumni start companies chasing low-value problems, because finding the high-value ones is too hard?

There’s tons of room for creativity in how we improve distribution:

It’s nontrivial to create a new asset class. But it feels like there’s still tons of room for creativity:

What if new Builders easily get funding against a signed LOI or customer contract (a kind of “startup factoring”)?

-What if we had a “US Department of Experiments” with the power to grant temporary waivers from Federal, State, and City laws — when safe and ethical to do so — for the purposes of learning what policy interventions actually work?

What if investors could directly fund product R&D within existing companies, taking risk in exchange for a future share of revenue?

What if we had a “US Department of Experiments” with the power to grant temporary waivers from Federal, State, and City laws — when safe and ethical to do so — for the purposes of learning what policy interventions actually work?