Note: This was a prompt for the application to the Future Forum. Reposting here in case someone decides to hand me $10m to spend.

I would poach 20 of my friends from the Silicon Valley FAANG circuit, and start 7-10 startups of 2-3 people each. Each person gets $500k in exchange for 7% investment (suggested: 2 years of salary at $150k/year, plus $200k for spend on hiring/compute/other stuff), to work on a tech project. Project ideas:

• Public goods funding, scientific funding mechanisms
• Universal job application for EA jobs
• Better institutional governance mechanisms (see Holden Karnofsky on "Why Nonprofit Boards Are Weird)
• Microcovid-type calculators for other areas of life (jobs, marriages, exercise, productivity)
• Economic concept simulators/games providing an intuition for things like diminishing marginal returns, land value tax, comparative advantage

The people I would poach:

People I’d fund

Other awesome folks

• Anna Wang
• Ted Suzman
• Ben Cogan
• Conor Barnes
• Barak Gila
• Keri Warr
• Peter Hartree