The founders of this future are already here. Many are getting started through Discord, Slack, group chats, podcasts, newsletters, membership programs, courses, and running events. What they need now is validation, shared norms, and better infrastructure to build beyond themselves.

They’ll be decentralized networks, linked with partners and other founders, built for conversation and participation instead of hierarchy and control. The founders will no longer stand apart from the audience; the two will begin to merge into a single system

More than a century ago, Maria Montessori began with a single classroom and the idea that children learn best when they are self-directed and given the right environment. She built a method others could use and adapt. It grew into a network of teachers, schools, and families connected by shared principles. Her ideas spread through workshops, books,... See more

They need help managing their private-domain communities and connecting their ideas across a network of partners and other founders. They need capital that rewards credibility, not follower count. They need tools that automate the repetitive parts of their work, and peers who can share what they’re learning in real time. They need advisors who... See more

We know ideas can scale through methodology, trust, and participation. We’re seeing echoes of that now, and with a lot more opportunity: technology makes it possible for anyone to build communities and systems around what they know. For the past twenty years, we’ve lived in an age of personality and celebrity on social media. But that’s starting to... See more

A creator becomes a founder, then a network, then an institution.