# Potential PARPA Partners ### Soft Commits * [[28 Feb 2023]] * [[Steven Gray]] (expressed interest) ### Potential PMs * [[Casey Handmer]] * [[Ritesh Ragavender]] * [[Jason Yosinski]] * [[Rebecca Li]] * [[Charmaine Chia]] (expressed interest after serves bond — what would it take to do otherwise?) * [[Sarah Constantin]] (expressed interest around [[Mammalian cell culture processes are horrifically inefficient]]) * [[Rewon Child]] (expressed interest) * [[Niamh Gavin]] * [[Andy Spielberg]] ### Potential Performers * [[Grigory Tikhomirov]] * [[Christian Schafmeister]] ### Potential Board of Directors Want engaged people here? * ⌚[[Ilan Gur]] * [[Sam Arbesman]] * 😃 [[Adam Marblestone]] * [[Josh Greenberg]] * 😃[[Kanjun Qiu]] ### Potential Board of Advisors Want fancy people here? Ideally they will represent different worlds * Academic STEM research * ⌚[[Venkatesh Narayanamurti]] (Academia) * - Someone from Materials world * Someone from Manufacturing world * Someone in actual academia * ⌚ [[Michael Nielsen characterizes institution building as making previously illegible things legible]] (General science) * 😃 [[Sam Rodriques]] * Startup operation * 😃[[Juan Benet conversation 27 Aug 2021]] * Startup investing * [[Jerry Neumann]] * ⌚ [[Charlie Songhurst]] * 😃[[Matt Clifford]] * Government research * Nonprofits * 😃[[Sam Arbesman]] * Government policy * 😃[[Eli Dourado]] * DARPA * [[Alicia Jackson]] * [[Mark Micire]] * 😭[[Arati Prabhakar conversation 10 Aug 2021]] * Stretch * ⌚ [[Neal Stephenson]] * [[Stewart Brand]](Long term thinking/Philanthropy) To ask * [[Tyler Cowen]] * [[Ilan Gur]] * * [[Jed McCaleb]] * [[Josh Greenberg]](Philanthropy) * [[Nicholas Brysiewicz]] * [[Neal Stephenson]] * I’m attempting to start a private DARP * ==Conditional on research advisors== [[Patrick Collison]] * [[PARPA needs to build a scitech research advisory board]] * [[David Leigh]] * [[Sam Rodriques]] ### Potential Funders + Interest * [[Jed McCaleb]] * Space stuff * Robotics * [[Juan Benet conversation 27 Aug 2021]] * Institution building * Metaresearch * [[Josh Greenberg]] (small amt) * Workshops * [[Patrick Collison]] * [[Peter Thiel]] * [[Sam Altman]] * ### Potential People * [[Shrey Jain]] — Intern? Allister Furey - pinged 20/12/19 - talked to 22/12/19 Rachel Zucker - pinged 22/12/19 [[Rewon Child Convo 25/12/2019]] - pinged 22/12/19 (not direct ask) Nathan Monroe - pinged 22/12/19 Rebecca Russel - 22/12/19 - not at first Anthony Chen Daisy Stanton - pinged 22/12/19 not direct ask Jeff Graham Oren Hazi - not starter Andy Spielberg - talked at neurips NEEDS FOLLOWUP Jeremy Leibs - Not starter Mark Micire - Circle back at end of december Rebecca Li - pinged 22/12/19 Brad Saund - one year left and really wants to finish PhD Katherine Ye (Maybe) Jasmine Wang - need to follow up from neurips Ben Zax Melissa Ilardo Garrett Dranya Joshua Horwitz Matt Yu Emmet Cleary Sharon Zhou - need to follow up from Neurips Benjamin Weitz Andrea Censi Ben Kurtz - pinged 22/12/19 [Alison Parisian](https://www.facebook.com/alison.parisian?fref=profile_friend_list&hc_location=friends_tab) Grace Vesom Tamas Szalay - pinged 22/12/19 Leslie Tong Jimmy Paulos Matthew Feldman - pinged 22/12/19 Joey Koehler Joseph Antognini - pinged 22/12/19 Lee Ricketson - pinged 22/12/19 Arthur Petron Arjun Daniel Sam Rosenthal Laura Jones Joseph Shoer Sam Molyneux Mabel Nguyen Zhaoyu Wang Tarın Ziyaee - pinged 23/12/19 William Gunn? Meelis Lootus Michael White Connor Coley Alex Rider? Anupam Pathak Jonny Cohen Hattie Chung Alex Flint Ali Ebrahim Matthew Sheen Alicia Jackson https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-brantner/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-sommerfeld/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-connelly-22849122/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-timar-47b825183/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-kurpinski/ Venkatesh Rao Dima Kamalov Grace Vesom Kevin Duncklee Avi Bar-Zeev Joshua Owen Vasumathi Raman Sid Bao Andy Bartlett - need to follow up from NeurIPS Garrett Dranya Yuliya Kuznetsova Michael Meller Stephanie Schulze Josh Yoon Priyam Patel Albert Ho Steven Wilke Daniil Kitchaev Jimmy Paulos Brian Lester Peter Haderlein Daniel Obenshain Elizabeth Decolvenaere Ryan Mitch? Andrew P. Sabelhaus Gregory Roberts Avram Golbert Jake Bernstein - pinged 22/12/19 Adrianne Jackson *People to directly ask about it* Michael Karpeles - asked 20/12/19 Steven Glinert - asked 20/12/19 Josh Tobin Brent Goldman Olivia Wang Ryan McLinko - asked 20/12/19 Paul Sawaya Carson Mcneil - asked 20/12/19 Tom Gwinn Sean Kolk Michael N - pinged 22/12/19 [[Malcolm Handley 5/1/20-ish]] - pinged 22/12/19 Ziewi Jiang Neal Strickberger Tammy Han Jeffery Lin Laura Deming Jeremy Conrad Peregrine Badger [[Isabelle ‘Izzy’ Mendoza]] Andy Sparks - Emailed 20/12/19 Rob Ochshorn Matt Kelly Lisha Li Edward Marks Jean Yves Bouget Michael Nielsen Henri Stern Dan Girshovich Nathaniel Sauder Luke Constople Patricia Prewitt Daniil Kitchaev Will Drevo James Weis Marissa Weichman Andrew Bellay Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz Henry Holtzman Ti Zhao Yu Tianxin Joe White - wife connections Timothy Kay Jennifer Yip Leanne Luce Stephanie Lu Luke Durant https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomofcourse/ Viola Gauci Tola Matt Ball Kevin Noertker Andy Lee John Morrison Anthony Chong Craig Montoiri Mark Campbell Albert Ng Hod Lipson Jeff Lipton Evan Myazono - pinged 22/12/19not particularly useful Ted Selker Rod Lim Rob Shepherd Peretz Partensky ### BOD * [[Patrick Collison]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Potential_PARPA_Partners) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Potential_PARPA_Partners)