On my last gap year after high school, I ran a not-for-profit conference in San Francisco. What we planned on being a 150-people event went viral and we got 1,300 applications within weeks.
We spun up a full-scale team — most of us were on a gap year after high-school or on break from college. We hosted Sam Altman (OpenAI), Daniela Amodei (Anthropic), 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium, and more.
It was intense, it was fun, it was hard. We had huge difficulties and roadblocks to overcome, pushing through some of the toughest nights of my life. In the end, with much help, we hosted an event which became a local legend and highlight of the year.
You can see the archived website here:
Future Forum
The Future Forum is an experimental 4-day conference in San Francisco, USA. We will gather in a welcoming South San Francisco mansion, mingle with many of the voices thinking and working on improving the future of humanity, and we will co-create a mixture of workshops, one-on-one conversations, and fireside chats.
Future Forum