Executive Director – @MichiganCFN. Author – https://teapaw.org/t.co/77RLX8VAzM. Founder & Chairman – @Labdoor. Mission – Solve the World's Biggest Problems!
Flint, Michigan
Joined January 2010
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Neil Thanedar retweeted
It’s never too early to apply to YC!
(If you’re ambitious enough!)
If you’re interested in working on any of these ideas, you should apply to YC. The deadline for the next batch is tomorrow at 8pm PT.
ycombinator.com/apply
Neil Thanedar retweeted
The overarching idea is to fund people, not projects.
Personal Capital > Venture Capital
My ideas are starting to converge:
Founder Accelerator: neilthanedar.com/founder-acc…
Utopic Ventures: neilthanedar.com/utopic-vent…
360 Deals for Creators: neilthanedar.com/360-deals-f…
They're all ways to fund high-potential individuals in tech/media, coach them, and share in their upside.
Neil Thanedar retweeted
Dear Michigan Leaders:
1. Disclose Dark Money Donors
2. Finally Fix FOIA
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Positive Politics gets us out of this trap by focusing on getting positive-sum work done in government!
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum.
marginalrevolution.com/margi…
Neil Thanedar retweeted
99.4% of all FDA-approved drugs from 2010 to 2019 were derived from NIH-funded research:
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All of this attention on USAID has really highlighted all the amazing work it does!
I bet it’ll get even stronger in the next administration.
Haters really do the best marketing!
Awful: Delivery of life saving treatment to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is in doubt amid USAID firings, the product's manufacturers tell me.
The treatment is a paste of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details:
newrepublic.com/article/1919…
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It is now possible for an Independent to win major elections.
Here are actually 2 Independent Lanes in US Politics: neilthanedar.com/the-2-indep…
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The #1 thing we can do to increase startup formation in America is to pass universal healthcare.
Thousands of potential founders are stuck in jobs just for healthcare.
Americans should have the freedom to quit their jobs and start startups without losing their healthcare!
Neil Thanedar retweeted
If we're going to solve the world's biggest problems, first we have to define what they are.
Here is my list of the world's biggest problems: neilthanedar.com/worlds-bigg…
Neil Thanedar retweeted
I'm bringing back my "Quote Notes" series for Ken Burns' new documentary "The American Revolution".
Here are 50+ quotes and 800+ words of commentary from me on Episode 1!
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I wish DOGE had been Silicon Valley style building.
Instead, we got Private Equity style cuts + debt.
DOGE embodied Silicon Valley startup logic: young tech workers with no government experience making rapid decisions about complex policy programmes. The predictable chaos—from disrupting nuclear security to grounding air traffic—shows what happens when "move fast and break things" meets state capacity.
Read my latest ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marian…
More on the myth of ‘start-up government’ ➡️ project-syndicate.org/commen…
Neil Thanedar retweeted
The front doors into the most exclusive industries are hidden.
The brilliance of @ycombinator is that it built a front door that is easy to find (YC) in front of a front door that is hard to find (VC).
Neil Thanedar retweeted
Many battles in politics are not Democrats vs. Republicans.
It's the 120 PAC funded legislators vs. the 28 independents.
We need more positive independents in politics!
Neil Thanedar retweeted
What makes @ycombinator so special?
And how could we do the same in politics?
Here's my 45 second answer: youtube.com/clip/UgkxgKK3rG3…
Neil Thanedar retweeted
This should be a rule:
If you're a pre-seed VC, you don't get to call a startup "too early" for you.
