Patri Friedman
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Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute in Helsinki on 13 May 2011.
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| Born |
Patri Friedman July 29, 1976 Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Harvey Mudd College Stanford University New York Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Activist and political theorist |
| Partner(s) | Brit Benjamin |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
Milton Friedman (grandfather) |
| Website | patrifriedman |
Milton Friedman (grandfather)
Rose Friedman (grandmother)
Patri Friedman (born July 29, 1976) is an American libertarian activist and theorist of political economy. He founded the nonprofit Seasteading Institute, which explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.
Friedman grew up in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Upper Merion Area High School, class of 1994, where he went by the name Patri Forwalter-Friedman. He was named after Patri J. Pugliese, a close friend of his parents. He graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1998, and went on to Stanford University to obtain his master's degree in computer science. He also holds an MBA from New York Institute of Technology – Ellis College. He worked as a software engineer at Google. As a poker player, he cashed in the World Series of Poker four times.
Friedman was executive director of the Seasteading Institute, founded on April 15, 2008, with a half-million-dollar donation by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The Institute's mission is "to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems". This was initially a part-time project — one day a week while working as a Google engineer the rest of the time — but Friedman left Google on July 29, 2008 to spend more time on seasteading. He and partner Wayne Gramlich hoped to float the first prototype seastead in the San Francisco Bay by 2010. At the October 2010 Seasteading social, it was announced that current plans were to launch a seastead by 2014.
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