Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, right, including: Today, my guest is Mike McCormick, founder and CEO of Halcyon, a combination nonprofit grantmaker and for-profit venture fund, working toward a single mission of helping the world'.

1. 01Which means that what we need most right now isn't more ideas, but founders who can build the organizations needed to implement whatever turn out to be the most viable solutions at
2. 02The first career transition grants Mike ever made were to eventual co-founders, Eric Ho and Dan Balsam, while they were still running their previous company, but starting to think
3. 03The financial boost, the vote of confidence, and the network-building support he provided helped them found a company which has since achieved unicorn status and become one of the