Kumar Garg
@KumarAGarg
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8 yrs @WHOSTP44, 7 yrs with @EricSchmidt, now leading @RenPhil21. https://t.co/ftaXIKFiAb
Washington, DC
Joined December 2010
Today, I was asked for any documents that explain "how your team got so much done" in Obama White House. I sent them this -> https://t.co/5YW48GKJ8z
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The Clinical Trial Abundance workshop that started it all would've never happened without @Parthion from @RenPhil21 telling me to start it not next year but in 2 months time before I knew what was even happening.
We need more field leaders like @RuxandraTeslo.
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We need more field leaders like @RuxandraTeslo.
And work on Clinical Trial Abundance is not just a hypothetical. Based on the Clinical Trial Abundance initiative last year w/ @IFP & @RenPhil21, I've been working on ways to make clinical trials more efficient (stay tuned & if you wanna help, DM).
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Congrats to @SGRodriques, @andrewwhite01 and the entire FutureHouse team for these spectacular results. Could this be the "AlexNet" moment for AI for Science? Proud to be on FutureHouse board- and want to work with philanthropists to make Kosmos available to more researchers.
Today, we’re announcing Kosmos, our newest AI Scientist, available to use now. Users estimate Kosmos does 6 months of work in a single day. One run can read 1,500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code. At least 79% of its findings are reproducible. Kosmos has made 7 discoveries
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Excited about this.
📢 We're hiring someone to help save millions of lives from heart disease. This role is about architecting a new fund, shaping its strategy+ driving interventions that could reshape global cardiovascular health. Apply now or share with your networks:
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A cohort of our team is planning to visit Japan in November to kickstart this work. Recommendations on people to meet are welcome.
Exciting news! Our third partnership with governments to scale the ARPA model. See https://t.co/TObGLyG3to for more on the "Big if True Science" model.
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Agree. Awesome to see.
.@leecronin is the real deal. This is fantastic news and well deserved👇
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If you are going to be in Europe in November, come say hello.
How do we unlock AI's potential for scientific discovery? We're bringing together frontier researchers & founders in London for 10+ sessions on robotics, therapeutics, materials, climate & more to identify bottlenecks and potential solutions. RSVP: https://t.co/hXP5nlAAEE
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That’s a wrap on Q3. Lots of exciting things happening at @FlyArcher, beginning with our acquisition of the Hawthorne Airport, which is strategically located in the heart of Los Angeles just miles from LAX, SoFi Stadium, downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach. We’re planting the
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Great to see Aaron, our resident astrophysicist @renphil21, get plaudits (and additional support) for the big-if-true program on low-cost telescopes that he is building with us.
Q: What do standardized, low-cost space telescopes, ultra-high-performance bio-inspired materials, and fusion energy that costs under 1¢/kWh all have in common? A: They’re all being pursued by our new residents at Astera!
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As Jen said, we are big fans of the thesis-driven Fund model, and I hope more field leaders do it.
renaissancephilanthropy.org
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Huge kudos to @pahlkadot on the launch of the Recoding America Fund!
recodingamerica.fund
Recoding America Fund is taking this once-in-a-generation opportunity to generate and pass reforms that shape that change in the public interest.
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I’m excited about our continued conspiracies for the public good.
(I'm staying on as an advisor to RenPhil, which means me leaving does *not* mean you will be spared my thoughts on How To Science.)
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If you are in NYC for EdTechWeek, come say hello.
EdTech Week 2025 kicks off Oct. 20 in NYC! Don’t miss: 📅 Oct. 21, 3 PM — Bridging the EdTech Talent Gap (moderated by @KumarAGarg) 📅 Oct. 22, 4 PM — Innovation Unleashed: How Competitions Drive Big Impact (moderated by @UlrichBoser) Agenda →
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We are excited to team up with you on this.
We're partnering to bring the @foresightinst Vision Weekend to the UK for the first time ever in June 2026! I went to my first one last year in SF and was blown away by the talent and ideas. Come along next year to explore the frontier of science & tech right here in London 🇬🇧
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20 steps to turn $2000 into $1,000,000+ in 2026 (if you work full-time) 1. Open 2 brokerage accounts 1 for swing trading and 1 for scalping. 2. Put $1000 into it each of them. 3. Use $1000 for scalping so take only 0-3 trades a day max (always, do not break this rule) 3. Use
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Huge kudos to @jasoncrawford and his team for putting on an incredible conference, and giving us the opportunity to dive deeper on how donors can push the frontier of progress.
Very inspiring talk today from @eric_is_weird and @ilangur on Warren Weaver, a pioneering funder of the fields of molecular biology and NLP. Should be an inspiration for all philanthropists and funders today. @RenPhil21
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We are spending a bunch of time thinking about this. Lots of potential to collectively move the ball on education-relevant use cases (eg early diagnosis of speech and other reading difficulties).
How Speech Recognition Systems Struggle With Children’s Voices -
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Deadline is TODAY (Oct 15th). Just submit a short abstract - we'll give you feedback on whether to put in a full app. You'll get feedback either way, and winners get non-dilutive cash awards. Eligibility is global - and to all performers (start-ups; non-profits; individuals).
⏰ Final call for 2026 @ToolsCompete submissions! Apply by end of tomorrow, Oct 15, to become part of a global community advancing learning through innovation. #ToolsCompetition #EdTech
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Introducing the next generation of YC founders. They’re avatars. 👀 Deadline to apply: Nov 10 @garrytan @saranormous @snowmaker @bosmeny @_ram_ @sdianahu @eladgil @sama @ballmatthew @GJarrosson @levie @eglyman @gokulr @terronk @skeptrune @lina_colucci @IbrahimAjami @hazhubble
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Agree with @JohnArnoldFndtn. It is partly why we created @RenPhil21: to give donors additional ways to bet on science/tech outside of the 3 major options that exist today: (a) building a large expert foundation they oversee, (b) mega-gifts to universities, or (c) “decide later.”
This isn't close to how the Giving Pledge works. More importantly, it highlights the issue of where will the very large tech fortunes eventually go. In the (gated) article, Thiel recounts Musk responding, “What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?” Many tech founders I've
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