Building The CI Corporation — The Collective Intelligence Project

Existing financialization models have trapped us into only funding certain technologies, with a constrained set of stakeholders, outcomes, and possibilities. We need a better container in which to build the future of technology, be it satellites or space travel or AI research. Other approaches are n

Building The CI Corporation Research Brief Jan 27 Written By Divya Siddarth This is an early brief for our work in developing an alternative model for the CI corporation. The existing venture capital / startup ecosystem prioritizes businesses that are asset-light, high-growth, short-term, software products. This covers some of what is good for the world, but leaves many things out: hardware, science, public goods, high-risk experiments, infrastructure. Top VC funds have more and more overlap in their portfolios, and the venture approach is becoming increasingly consolidated as the ecosystem gr

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