Glen Weyl

[4][5] Weyl helped create a collective decision-making procedure known as quadratic voting, designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue,[2] and also a method of democratically disbursing resources known as quadratic funding.

[6] Weyl was born in San Francisco,[1] and grew up in Palo Alto, California.

In his youth, Weyl embraced free-market beliefs after being introduced to the works of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.

[10] He went on to attend Princeton University, where four years later, he was valedictorian of the class of 2007; while still an undergraduate, he completed the required coursework and exams for a doctoral degree in economics, which he received the next year, under the supervision of Jean Tirole, José Scheinkman, Hyun-Song Shin, and Roland Bénabou.

[7][11] After receiving his PhD, Weyl spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and another three years as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, before joining Microsoft Research as an economist and researcher.