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Philanthropic foundations bias heavily towards granting large $ amounts exclusively to organizations (not individuals), meaning there are few existing avenues to fund promising people.
Molly Mielke • Scaling the personal grantmaking sector · Molly Mielke
It seemed really natural to give more funding to people who could do more with it and to find great deals for people who had money but didn’t have differentiated or interesting portfolios.
Arlan Hamilton • It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
I believe that scaling up personal grantmaking as an individual, group, foundation, and company-sponsored practice holds the power to unlock a new sector of the economy — one that would quickly increase the scale and quality of companies and nonprofits we see founded in the future.
Molly Mielke • Scaling the personal grantmaking sector · Molly Mielke
Moth is a fund focused on enabling exceptional individuals early using both grants and investment dollars. My goal is to establish a replicable funding model that aligns the economics to incentivize supporting individuals from exploration all the way through to world-shaping company.
Molly Mielke • Manifesto · Moth Fund
-Starting an angel fund, fellowship, or grant program to support people or ideas you like
Nadia Asparouhova • 27: Friend groups
Below please find a resource center for brands in their earliest phases. This resource was born as I was working to summarize answers to all my most frequently asked questions. The goal of this resource is to uplift more than a few. I will continue to open doors for those that come from the fringe and help them be awarded opportunities usually left... See more
Virgil Abloh • Virgil Abloh™ FREE GAME
To say that Fairmint is potentially the most transformative venture in The Family’s portfolio would be an understatement. Put simply, it makes it easier and more accessible than ever to deploy capital in any business, making the upside available to pretty much anyone.
Nicolas Colin • Why Don't Uber Drivers Own Shares? Now They Could
Jeff Jordan – who’s been involved in everything from eBay to OpenTable to Airbnb – said off the cuff “the secret to everything I’ve done, and it’s not a secret, is economic empowerment. It is building things that help people make money.”
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
“We wanted to create a frictionless environment with Spearhead to enable founders on the ground to fund the most interesting people and projects they know of at the very early stage” – Brian Norgard