To my knowledge, at least 3 of these 4 grantmakers live in the Bay Area, which means they probably have a lot of overlap in their social network.
That is incorrect. The current grant team was actually explicitly chosen on the basis of having non-overlapping networks. Besides me nobody lives in the Bay Area (at least full time). Here is where I think everyone is living:
Matt Fallshaw: Australia (but also travels a lot)
Helen Toner: Georgetown (I think)
Alex Zhu: No current permanent living location, travels a lot, might live in Boulder starting a few weeks from now
Matt Wage: New York
I was also partially chosen because I used to live in Europe and still have pretty strong connections to a lot of european communities (plus my work on online communities making my network less geographically centralized).
That is incorrect. The current grant team was actually explicitly chosen on the basis of having non-overlapping networks. Besides me nobody lives in the Bay Area (at least full time). Here is where I think everyone is living:
Matt Fallshaw: Australia (but also travels a lot)
Helen Toner: Georgetown (I think)
Alex Zhu: No current permanent living location, travels a lot, might live in Boulder starting a few weeks from now
Matt Wage: New York
I was also partially chosen because I used to live in Europe and still have pretty strong connections to a lot of european communities (plus my work on online communities making my network less geographically centralized).
Good to know!
Isn’t Matt in HK?
He sure was on weird timezones during our meetings, so I think he might be both? (as in, flying between the two places)
Update: I was just wrong, Matt is indeed primarily HK
Boy, there are two Matts in that list.