Malcolm Collins (author)
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Malcolm Collins is a best selling author, business person, philanthropist and advocate of the pronatalist movement.[1]
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| Spouse | Simone Collins |
Biography
Malcom Collins studied at University of St. Andrews as a neuroscientist where his studies focused on brain-computer interface. An interest in entrepreneurship led him to Stanford University, where he got his MBA and co-founded his first startup, the art commission marketplace, ArtCorgi.[2][3]
Malcom proposed to his wife Simone through a series of 18 art commissions, from 18 different artists[4], that went viral as one of the first online proposals of that type.[5] She said yes and ArtCorgi, a 500 Startups funded company, was their first startup venture together.[2] [6]
Malcolm then became the Director of Strategy at the venture capital firm TheVentures, an early stage capital venture firm in South Korea. [7]
After Simone graduated Cambridge, Malcolm and Simone took inspiration from the search fund method for business acquisition developed at Stanford in the 1980's, and came up with a variation called the Married Search Fund Method where couples raise funds together from investors to look for an operating business for acquire and expand.[8]
Together they purchased and act as co-CEO's of TravelMax, a high end travel agency that has offices on five continents and has yearly revenues of $70M.[8]
During the pandemic the couple launched the Collins School for the Gifted as a homeschooling option for exceptional children, where acceptance is based on a student's work ethic rather than test scores.[9] The inaugural class is scheduled for the Fall 2024 semester.
The Collins' currently have three children are are advocates of natalism.[10][11][12] Malcolm’s experience working in South Korea led him to launch the Pronatalist.org. The non-profit helps preserve and expand human diversity in the face of rapid fertility collapse in developed countries. [13][14]
After dealing with a previous issue with Simone's mother and cancer, they became one of the first participants of "Gattaca" embryo screening.[15][16] They used embryo testing to chose an embryo least likely to develop signs of the cancer her mother had contracted.[12][17] [18] The couple has received some viral attention from the resulting media coverage including, a series of meme's entitled The Elite Couple Breeding to Save Mankind.[19][20]
References
- ↑ "'Hipster eugenics': why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?". theguardian.com. 2023-04-21. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Reddit-Betrothed Couple Launches Startup Based on the Experience". PCMAG. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ↑ "Couple engaged through memes launches ArtCorgi: Your marketplace for nerd art". VentureBeat. 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "Viral Reddit proposal inspires commissioned pop art site ArtCorgi". East Bay Times. 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ↑ "The 'Elite' Breeding Couple Are Terminally Online Redditors Who've Gone Viral Before". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "Couple engaged through memes launches ArtCorgi: Your marketplace for nerd art". VentureBeat. 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "'New kids on the block: geeky, wealthy, entrepreneurial pro-natalism activists". bioedge.org. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Hunter, By Glenn. "Why Many Entrepreneurs Are Turning to a 'Search-Fund' Model". D Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ Breen, Amanda (2022-05-03). "The 'Bizarrely Authoritarian' U.S. Education System Inspired This Husband and Wife to Co-Found a 'Genius School' for Future Entrepreneurs and Leaders". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "'Elite' Couple Trying To Breed For Mankind's Sake Gets The Twitter Treatment". huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "Simone & Malcolm Collins, the Founders of the Pronatalist Foundation | 01-30-2023 – 77 WABC". wabcradio.com. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Black, Julia. "Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ Dodds, Io (2023-04-17). "Meet the 'elite' couples breeding to save mankind". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "Why the world needs more big families like ours amid the population crisis". nypost.com. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "The new push for more babies: How tech elites think it will save the planet". nationalpost. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ Black, Julia. "Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "The Pandora's Box of Embryo Testing Is Officially Open". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "'Elite couple breeding to save mankind' insist it's not eugenics". MSN.com. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "'New kids on the block: geeky, wealthy, entrepreneurial pro-natalism activists". bioedge.org. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ↑ "Elite' Couple 'Breeding To Save the World' Becomes an Instant Meme". themarysue.com. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
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