The globe
Capitalism, on a globe.
The world’s largest public companies, wealthiest founders, and biggest economies — plotted at their location, each scaled (log) within its layer. A calm, open re-imagining of Harvard’s Globe of Economic Complexity. Drag to spin, scroll to zoom, hover a dot, toggle the layers.
● companies by market cap · ● founders by net worth · ● countries by GDP. Height is log-scaled within each layer. Next: color companies by the problem they serve.
Weekly whitepaper drop
One problem.One whitepaper. Every week.
Each week we ship a deep-dive whitepaper on a top-ranked humanity-scale problem — built in the spirit of Musk’s Hyperloop Alpha and the transformer paper. Problem + market size + before/after vision + a proposed solution + the investors who would back it. Humanity’s Requests for Startups, sourced and sorted quantitatively. No spam. No marketing.
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the three routings
1 · weekly whitepaper
one humanity-scale problem per week, deep-dived to whitepaper depth. ships every monday.
2 · founder → problem match
if you’re building, we’ll route you toward the problem and capital stack you fit.
3 · allocator → deal flow
if you’re deploying capital, curated quest-mapped deal flow in the domains you care about.