Leadership & Staff
Max Borders
Max is former Director of Idea Accounts at Emergent Order and former Director of Content for FEE.org where he remains a contributing edito
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Position
Danielle Strachman
Charter School founder and Peter Associate Thiel
Muhammad Yunus
Microfinance pioneer; Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh
Joe Lonsdale
Co-founded Palantir Technologies; founding partner, 8VC
John Mackey
Co-Founder, CEO - Whole Foods Market - will step down September 1 2022
John Chisholm
Founder-CEO & Chairman of Decisive Technology
Patri Friedman
American libertarian anarcho-capitalist, Seasteading founder, grandson of Milton Friedman
Michael Strong
CEO of Freedom Lights Our World (FLOW)
George Petrie
Professor of Naval Architecture at Webb Institute
Eric Jacobus
Co-founder of The Stunt People
Ajay Royan
Royan is a Principal at a multi-billion dollar global macro hedge fund
Donors
Peter Thiel
Billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir Cofounder; Chess prodigy
Holdings
Ephemerisle
A week-long on-the-water festival founded by the Steading institute
