![]() ![]() Outside of Emergent Ventures, consider his construction of the George Mason economics department: Robin Hanson, Bryan Caplan, Alex Tabarrok, Garett Jones, Mark Koyama, among others. *Update:* Alexey Guzey started compiling a list of all Emergent Ventures winners here. He also funded Youyang Gu, a data scientist with no formal training in epidemiology that became known for producing some of the most accurate covid forecasts. In an emergency fund to support Covid-19 related projects, he was was the first to fund Curative, which pivoted from being a sepsis company to carrying out 3M+ covid tests by September 2020 - 3% of all covid tests in the US (~93M according to Our World in Data). Her work has now been recognized by the Time100 Next award. ![]() He was one of the first to support Clementine Jacoby to leave her job at Google to start Recidiviz, a nonprofit that has now helped identify 44,000 prison inmates in 34 states who do not pose public-safety threats and could be released. Others had been rejected by undergrad programs at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, but their research talents have become recognized by the best academic life scientists and top biotech startups.Įxamining Tyler’s public track record reveals many more impressive selections across diverse fields. Tyler funded him ~2.5 years ago when his most notable public accomplishment was amassing 300 twitter followers.Īnother winner has now started a company backed by top tier investors - professional talent hunters - but he received his first funding from Tyler a year prior, when he was still experimenting with what to build. One has attracted international recognition for his new non-profit founded this year. The average age of this group is ~20 years old. I have now met >5 Emergent Venture winners that work in life sciences. The winners of Emergent Ventures are truly emergent. ![]() It’s hard to find an awardee of these programs that was not already widely recognized for their achievements among insiders in their field. In comparison, Forbes 30U30, MIT Tech Review TR35, or Stat Wunderkind, and other industry awards that highlight talent are lagging indicators of success. Tyler has identified talent either earlier than or missed by top undergraduate programs, the best biotech startups, and the best biotech investors, all without any insider knowledge of biotech. Yet, he is often beating me and many of the people and institutions that I know. Tyler’s understanding of biotech is that of a very broad economist. I’ve also spent close to a decade at two of the best life science academic institutions in the world. I believe that Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world. ![]()
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