Jim O' Neill of the Thiel Foundation and Patri Friedman of The Seasteading Institute introduce Breakthrough Philanthropy: Giant Leaps for Mankind, an evening catalyzing radical advances in technology to address humanity's greatest challenges, Dec 7th, 2010, in San Francisco. Patri discusses the Silicon Valley culture of innovation, and how it relates to philanthropy. For more info, see the event Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/breakthroughphilanthropy?v=app_4949752878
To learn more about Peter Thiel and the Thiel Foundation's innovative philanthropy, visit their website: http://thielfoundation.org/
@0:51 "[...] we cannot take progress for granted. As you know, the world looks to America for progress, and America looks to California. If you ask most Californians where they get their progress, they’ll point towards the Bay. But here in the Bay, there is no place left to point. So we have to create solutions. When the world is downloading solution 1.2, we create solution 5.0.”
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