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Some information about the structure and founding, copied from their About-page [0]: How much funding is behind Arc? - Arc’s donors will contribute more than $
by _Microft 5y ago
Some information about the structure and founding, copied from their About-page [0]:
How much funding is behind Arc? - Arc’s donors will contribute more than $650M to the Institute to allow it to fully sustain scientists and their research for renewable eight-year terms.
What is Arc’s growth plan? - The Institute‘s growth through 2025 will be gradual, with the goal of building a culture and organization that can scale. Phase 1 of the institute will involve hiring 10–15 Core Investigators, each of whom may employ 10–20 trainees, researchers, or engineers. We envision the 5 Technology Centers to be of similar size, for a total headcount of approximately 150–350 scientific personnel. We expect to get there within 5 years.
[0] https://arcinstitute.org/about https://arcinstitute.org/about
- nharada 5y agoGotta say, it's refreshing to see a gradual and sustainable growth plan, especially when it's mainly tech/startup folks behind the foundation. None of this "let's hyperscale" stuff.
- cinntaile 5y agoYou can't really hyperscale research I think. Throwing more money at a problem isn't a solution. A viable approach is probably to try and remove as many administrative barriers as possible so that researchers can focus on interesting problems instead, which is what they seem to be doing.