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Schmidt Futures Fact sheet for partners report The market for talent is broken. If we want to solve the hardest problems in science and society, we must change the way in which the most exceptional people everywhere prove out their ideas. We scour the Earth searching for the next visionaries, betting early on the power of their ideas to solve hard problems in science and society. These visionaries are people with new insight to address important challenges; people who need new opportunities for their ideas to be heard, or to access modern tools and technology; and people who want to join together in a network of the sharpest minds to make more of a difference to more people, in more places. Through the power of example we inspire others with more resources, including government and business, to scale efforts that improve people’s lives. In this sense, we are “engineering possibility.”

Fact sheet for partners

Schmidt Futures

2022

Abstract

The market for talent is broken. If we want to solve the hardest problems in science and society, we must change the way in which the most exceptional people everywhere prove out their ideas. We scour the Earth searching for the next visionaries, betting early on the power of their ideas to solve hard problems in science and society. These visionaries are people with new insight to address important challenges; people who need new opportunities for their ideas to be heard, or to access modern tools and technology; and people who want to join together in a network of the sharpest minds to make more of a difference to more people, in more places. Through the power of example we inspire others with more resources, including government and business, to scale efforts that improve people’s lives. In this sense, we are “engineering possibility.”

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