Jason Crawford
Bio
Updated 03/22/26Jason Crawford is the founder and president of the Roots of Progress Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to building a culture of progress and restoring an ambitious vision of the future. He writes and speaks about the history and philosophy of progress, particularly in technology and industry, and hosts the Progress Conference. He spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder, including as co-founder and CEO of Fieldbook, and held engineering management roles at Flexport, Amazon, and Groupon. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Founding Fellow at the Cosmos Institute and an advisor to the Foresight Institute, and was formerly a part-time technical consultant to Our World in Data. His forthcoming book, The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, is to be published by MIT Press. He has received funding from Open Philanthropy, Emergent Ventures, the Long-Term Future Fund, and the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and has been named to Vox's Future Perfect 50 list.
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