Curtis Yarvin

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) is an American writer and computer scientist, and leading thinker in the Tech Right/New Right movement. He is the author of the blogs Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror, where he writes on political theory, governance and critiques of modern democratic systems. Yarvin is also the inventor of the decentralized computing platform Urbit and co-founded the San Francisco–based company Tlon Corp in 2013 to further develop the network with support from Founders Fund. He attended Brown University, graduating in 1992.