"“I don't like that Giving Pledge thing at all. It's slow money. You make an announcement, but the money doesn't get out. So I think it's like, Go, go, go fast.”"
"“A frustrating thing about San Francisco: Everything just takes forever because of the bureaucracy. So anything we can do is just go, go, go.”"
"“In the Mission and Chinatown and the Avenues, merchant corridors that he helps power-wash ($3 million). In the Tenderloin, street festivals and decorative security gates on storefronts ($5 million) and a bid to turn a gambling den into a community center ($2 million). In the Castro, a new rainbow flag ($10,000).”"
"“His biggest contribution - what he considers his 'legacy project,' according to his team - is in the realm of public safety. A decade ago, as rates of petty crime were cresting, Larsen found a way to overlay neighborhoods with a network of private cameras.”"
Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple Labs, avoids social events and prefers fast action. He criticizes slow philanthropy models and favors giving that produces immediate results. He has funded political and research efforts, including support for an AI regulation candidate and study of oil-and-gas transition. In San Francisco, his contributions have supported street cleaning, merchant corridor improvements, security and street festivals, storefront upgrades, and a plan to convert a gambling den into a community center. His largest effort focuses on public safety through a private-camera network over neighborhoods, developed when petty crime rates were rising.
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