For investors

We make babies, you make money. To fuel the startup process, we’re selling rights to New Athens’ future tax revenue. You’ll sign a revenue-sharing agreement. You’ll pay a fixed amount on signing and receive a fixed percentage of New Athens’ tax revenue for 10 years, starting upon New Athens’ incorporation and legal authority to collect tax. At the highest level, New Athens is a bet on humans and a hedge against investments that will only succeed if AI makes 99% of Americans unemployed.

If you share our vision for human survival, or your portfolio balance makes you uneasy, we want to talk with you. Email us.

We make babies, you make money.

To fuel the startup process, we’re selling rights to New Athens’ future tax revenue.

To fuel the startup process, we’re selling rights to New Athens’ future tax revenue. New Athens is a bet on humans and a hedge against investments that will only succeed if AI makes 99% of Americans unemployed.

Turn your capital and professional acumen to the problem of

a world where humans and AI do not merge, but instead co-exist. In surveys, upwards of 90% of Americans do not want to implant or inject devices into their bodies. To put it diplomatically, you’re investing in a healthy outlet for the people most turned off by the overreach of the tech industry.

For sale: 1% of yearly gross tax revenue for 10 years.

Sale begins early 2026. Sign up to be notified: [email signup form]

FAQ

Regardless of whether AI booms or busts, diversity of investment has been vindicated in every previous economic period and most portfolios are probably overindexed on AI.

How does it work?

You’ll sign a revenue-sharing agreement. You’ll pay a fixed amount on signing and receive a fixed percentage of New Athens’ tax revenue for 10 years, starting upon New Athens’ incorporation and legal authority to collect tax.

How much will it cost?

We haven’t yet priced the 1%. There will be multiple levels of buy-in. That is, you’ll be able to purchase more or less of the full 1%. Sign up above to get notified of pricing and sale dates.

If I’m slow and the first 1% sells out, will there be more chances to buy in?

Yes. Additional sales will follow. Each sale will cover 1% of gross tax revenue over a 10-year period. As New Athens grows, deal terms will get progressively less favorable.

How much money are we talking about?

Here’s an example scenario.

IF New Athens incorporates with 2,000 residents

AND population grows to 20,000 residents after 10 years

AND local tax revenue is the U.S. average of ~$5,000 per capita

THEN the full contract (1% of tax revenue per year for 10 years) will pay out ~$4M

What happens if New Athens never gets off the ground?

You’ll receive your contracted portion of…zero dollars. AKA: You’ll get nothing.

What will my money be used for?

We’ll use the funds to pay for the startup process, including the legal costs of incorporating the city.

Doesn’t this just mean the rich get richer?

Yes and no. Apart from paid revenue share agreements, early residents will also be granted a share of future city tax revenue. They’ll pay not in cash, but in taking the risk of physically moving to a brand new city.

At a high level, what am I investing in?

New Athens is a bet on a world where humans and AI do not merge, but instead co-exist. Depending on the survey, upwards of 90% of Americans do not want to implant or inject devices into their bodies. To put it diplomatically, you’re investing in a healthy outlet for the people most turned off by the overreach of the AI industry. Read more in our note to investors.

What are you investing in? New Athens is a bet on a world where humans and AI do not merge, but instead co-exist as complimentary, cooperative species.

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The earliest investors in AI grappled with a question that’s fallen out of public awareness: in a world with AI, what path should humans take? There were two broad answers proposed. First, humans should merge with AI. Second, humans should be more human—and actually step back from transhuman trends and technologies. In other words, should we be one species, or two species?

Almost everyone with influence chose plan A—merge into one species. New Athens is plan B.

Long term, we’re not inherently against AI. But we fundamentally believe in co-existance and complimentary roles. We think merging, while potentially possible, will harm humans and hold back AI.

Many investors and polciymakers, perhaps yourself included, agree, but went all-in on AI because you see it as only path out of national bankrupsy and total economic collapse. Willing to risk mental health of population getting fried by reckless implementations of retail AI products. This is a bet that keeps many investors and policymakers up at night, as it should. Elon and many others are in this boat.

You should want New Athens to succeed because, at worst, we are a backstop to Plan A: if consumer AI ruins everyone’s mind, New Athenians are the people who will pick up the pieces—who will keep the flame of Western civilization alive. The Battlestar Galactica of Western Civilization.

But we are also a bet on Plan B: a bet on humans as humans. Even a bet on humans as a multi-planetary species.

Rewrite the below. Simplify so it’s a simple rev share agreement: investors give New Athens Launch Company money; in exchange, investors get portion of city tax revenue for 10 years. Sell in traunches. Sell first traunch, 1% of tax revenue for 10 years, for $5M. Sell second traunch for $10M. Etc. More traction we get, more charge for participating in the traunch.

To grow New Athens, we’re pairing a normal city government (executive, legislative, and judicial branches), with a nimble investment system modeled on venture capital.

The goal is to get the best of two incredibly powerful models—representative democracy and venture capital—and minimize the downsides of each on its own.

How it works:

1. An group of investors signs a contract with city government to operate an investment fund in the city. The investors invest their own money, not the city’s money. The city only signs the contract if it feels the investors are aligned with the city’s goals. (Many funds may operate at once, just as Silicon Valley is home to a wide range of investors.)
2. The investment fund will grant money to small teams of residents with big ideas to grow New Athens. From schools, to businesses, to infrastructure—whatever helps the city grow.
3. In exchange, city government will pay the investment fund a portion of the city’s total yearly revenue for 10 years. The portion will be chosen to keep incentives aligned: the investment fund will only make money if New Athens’s economy grows substantially. In any year the number of single-income families in the city falls, investors receive zero payout.

For government, this model frees civil servants to do what good governments do—provide safety, stability, and maintain the consent of residents. And it relieves agencies from the need to move fast and take creative risks—the things America’s founders intentionally designed government to be bad at.

For investors, our model narrows investor interests to whatever will help a city of families thrive. This is in contrast to Silicon Valley today, where the profit motive compels investors to dump cash into AI—even though many investors privately believe AI is dangerous and may lead to human extinction.

For New Athens as a city, this model helps grow the city’s institutions—companies, non-profits, civic groups—from the ground up, and makes sure they’re led by people who share the same goals as everyone else who moves to the city.

And for us, New Athens’ founders, this model helps us enlist residents in building the city—and gives residents substantial power over us, because this model is designed, in part, to keep government small.