Abundance / Progress Studies network
- HQ / base
- Washington DC / SF
- Status
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Adjacent-and-entangled: Progress Studies (Cowen/Collison 2019), Works in Progress (Stripe), Institute for Progress (Watney/Stapp — immigration, biosecurity, metascience), Roots of Progress, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson's 'Abundance' (2025), YIMBY. Open Phil built a $120M Abundance & Growth Fund (2025) with Collison money — American Prospect documented the 'nine-figure Silicon Valley-funded abundance movement' (June 2026). Shares EA's technocratic DNA while rejecting doom.
Connections
- Coefficient Giving (Open Philanthropy)$120M Abundance & Growth Fund (2025)
- Patrick Collisonco-founded progress studies; co-funded AGF
- Tyler Cowenprogress-studies co-founder
- Our World in Dataepistemic substrate