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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Jason: I am very goal-driven, so just tell me what the goal is. Me: The goal is to scale even faster (more capital, more field leaders and ideas, more but-for results). Jason: 👇
Thrilled to announce @educationpalmer is joining us as a Senior Advisor, bringing decades of experience driving innovation across education and technology to the team. From his experience at the Gates Foundation to his leadership at @TogetherPurple_, Jason will help advance our
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Excited for this.
So this is public now, so: I’m officially starting a Works in Progress-style magazine focusing on the developing world! It is called In Development, and first call for pitches will be coming at the end of the year.
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Excited to see this effort launch. Would love to see more philanthropists experiment w creative (and easy!) ways to unleash capital for impact. Always happy to chat if anyone’s ever interested in trying just hmu
At @RenPhil21, we want to give donors more ways to bet on science and tech. Thanks to @elidourado and the @AsteraInstitute team, we will be standing up a new offering that will leverage DAFs to bring down the cost of capital of energy and infrastructure projects. More here:
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Congrats @hannu for launching @redqueenbio to address biorisk.
Today, we are launching Red Queen Bio ( https://t.co/b1szn8oyps), an AI biosecurity company, with a $15M seed led by @OpenAI. Biorisk grows exponentially with AI capabilities. Our mission is to scale biological defenses at the same rate. A 🧵 on who we are + what we do!👇🏻1/19
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There are $250B sitting in DAFs. What if donor-advisors could use funds for private loan guarantees for FOAK projects or facilities? Would it help the country reindustrialize? 🤔 At Astera, we're going to try it.
At @RenPhil21, we want to give donors more ways to bet on science and tech. Thanks to @elidourado and the @AsteraInstitute team, we will be standing up a new offering that will leverage DAFs to bring down the cost of capital of energy and infrastructure projects. More here:
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At @RenPhil21, we want to give donors more ways to bet on science and tech. Thanks to @elidourado and the @AsteraInstitute team, we will be standing up a new offering that will leverage DAFs to bring down the cost of capital of energy and infrastructure projects. More here:
Happy to launch Tertiary Impact Capital in partnership with @RenPhil21 & @AsteraInstitute! Tertiary will efficiently leverage charitable DAFs to help deploy innovative sustainable infrastructure projects. Onwards! 🚀@tkalil2050 @KumarAGarg @elidourado
https://t.co/gX4380toEa
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We subscribe to the Sydney Brenner adage: “progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, probably in that order.”
Calling all scientist hackers! Proud to be supporting @Sergei_Imaging's Autonomous Microscopy Hackathon this year - this hybrid event will be bringing together researchers and engineers to build the future of science instruments. Sign up now: https://t.co/ScoRojeJcL
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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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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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