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Alex Araki
San Francisco, CA
Alex’s Substack
Essays
  • The Race to Allocate One Trillion Dollars in Philanthropic Capital
  • Ten more unintuitive things about impact philanthropy fundraising
  • Links #11
  • 19 things I've learned
  • The disease we keep calling a symptom
Work

Philanthropic initiatives for human flourishing

I am a Renaissance Philanthropy, Emergent Ventures, and OSV fellow whose spent the past decade developing drugs to treat chronic diseases of aging. I was an early hire at Gordian Bio, a longevity startup in the Bay, before leaving to found a Focused Research Organisation (Artemis) that failed. I took those learnings and networks to then develop a new philanthropic initiative for chronic pain classification. I write about my personal experiences around philanthropic initiatives and fundraising on my Substack.

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Recovering blue-collar scientist

Love a crisp pint of Guinness on a sunny London morning. Love Hunan/Sichuan food more. Jura even more. Can one-shot weigh rodents by eye. SNL stan.

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