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Caleb Watney

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Caleb Watney

@calebwatney

head of public policy @coeff_giving, previously co-founder @IFP // the US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it

Brookland, DC

Joined January 2012

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Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Jul 9
Some bittersweet news to announce today: I recently left @IFP to join @coeff_giving as Managing Director of Public Policy, where I'm building a new US AI policy team, overseeing the Abundance and Growth Fund alongside @mattsclancy, and managing CG's government affairs work.
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Jan 25, 2022
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
May 3, 2024
Remember when Skype had a 15-year lead on video conferencing and then completely lost the market during a global pandemic + remote work boom?
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Nov 22, 2022
A chart to keep in mind this week as your relatives bring up their political views ☕️
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Oct 7, 2024
How can you not think about the Roman Empire?
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Jul 13, 2024
You laugh, but "adopt simple best practices the rest of the world adopted decades or centuries ago" is exactly the spirit that American infrastructure policy needs right now
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
Jul 12, 2024
Sorry, Mr. Rat. The all-you-can-eat buffet is coming to an END. We're the FIRST administration doing the work to get millions of tons of trash off our sidewalks every day. First containers for businesses and now the official NYC Bin for small apartment buildings. This is how we
GIF
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Nov 8, 2024
This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery
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There seem to be grave concerns about the integrity of the research. MIT announced that they "conducted an internal, confidential review and concluded that the paper should be withdrawn from public discourse." economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-… wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-sa…
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Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Jun 14, 2025
Someone at Novo Nordisk failed to pay a $450 maintenance fee, which would have kept its patent on Ozempic in force for another two years... A very expensive mistake!
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Nov 25, 2020
One of the most insane details of our current ordeal is that the Moderna vaccine was actually designed in two days. In January. nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/…
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Sep 16, 2025
Explain your ideology in one chart (okay actually three)
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Feb 25, 2022
The world is so insane right now that we're all breezing by the fact that the head of the Russian space agency threatened to... drop the International Space Station on us...??
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Oct 25, 2024
Bloomberg
@business
Oct 24, 2024
TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife trib.al/c6XdKvH
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Nov 23, 2021
New tracking poll shows all-time high support in the US for nuclear energy ⚛️
Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
Dec 9, 2021
The CCP is terrified that the US will someday fix its high-skilled immigration pipeline