Founders Pledge is a global nonprofit that asks technology entrepreneurs to commit a percentage of their personal proceeds from a business exit to charity. Beyond administering these pledges, the organization conducts in-depth research on cause areas including global health, climate, and global catastrophic risks, and manages several philanthropic funds that direct capital to the most effective interventions. With over 2,200 members across 45+ countries who have pledged $12.9 billion in total, the organization has facilitated over $1.7 billion in charitable donations to date.
Founders Pledge is a global nonprofit that asks technology entrepreneurs to commit a percentage of their personal proceeds from a business exit to charity. Beyond administering these pledges, the organization conducts in-depth research on cause areas including global health, climate, and global catastrophic risks, and manages several philanthropic funds that direct capital to the most effective interventions. With over 2,200 members across 45+ countries who have pledged $12.9 billion in total, the organization has facilitated over $1.7 billion in charitable donations to date.
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Founders Pledge believes that entrepreneurs hold a unique combination of wealth, risk tolerance, and systems-thinking that makes them powerful agents for charitable impact. By securing legal pledges before exit events — when entrepreneurs may be most receptive and proceeds are largest — the organization captures philanthropic capital that might otherwise be undirected. It then multiplies the impact of that capital through rigorous cause-area research that identifies the most effective giving opportunities, particularly in neglected areas. For global catastrophic risks and AI safety specifically, the organization employs a 'defense in depth' framework: funding prevention (reducing likelihood of unsafe AI deployment), response (limiting spread of harms), and resilience (preserving human agency even after dangerous systems exist). By deploying funding to policy, technical research, and diplomatic engagement — especially in underfunded windows — the organization aims to shift the probability distribution of global catastrophic outcomes.
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