Largest Endowment in the World

How Artizen will climb from $4 million to $1 trillion—and underwrite the next Renaissance.

Before we begin our climb, we need to measure the mountain ahead. And make no mistake: this is Everest.

Each year the world spends roughly $7 trillion on innovation. Sounds huge—until you realize it’s less than 6% of global GDP. For the engine of prosperity, that’s a massive underinvestment. If Artizen wants to make a dent, our Endowment must grow to $1 trillion or more.

Just how big is a trillion dollars?

If you spent $1 million every single day since the founding of Rome—day after day for 2,778 years—you’d only now be hitting one trillion. Stack hundred-dollar bills a thousand kilometers high—past the Space Station. That’s $1 trillion. Put those same bills on a freight train and you’re hauling ten thousand metric tons, the weight of fifty blue whales.

And what can you do with a trillion dollars?

You could bankroll every film that ever premiered at Sundance. Or cover fifty million rooftops with solar panels, illuminating whole cities with clean energy. Or fund a hundred thousand scientists for ten years straight—unlocking the mysteries of the universe. You could run the Apollo program four times over, until moon landings feel routine. You could plant a trillion trees, literally, reshaping the air we breathe.

To reach the summit, we’ll need endurance.

Because let’s be honest: today we’re not even at base camp—we’re still down in Lukla, the little town where climbers sip tea, check their gear, and stare up at the mountain wondering what the hell they’ve signed up for.

Today, our Endowment is only $4 million—a rounding error compared to the giants we plan to surpass. But we’re growing fast, 161% per season. Before the end of the year, I think we’ll reach $10 million.

Unfortunately growth, like altitude, gets harder the higher you climb. Thin air. Less oxygen. Natural limits kick in. As we scale, our per-season growth rate will inevitably slow. Let’s assume—very rough, paper-napkin style—that growth decays exponentially until it levels out around 2% per season.

Even so, compounding is magic.

In less than five years, we’ll reach $10 billion, overtaking Kickstarter as the largest funding platform for creators. A few years later, we’ll overtake Harvard. By 2034, we’ll pass Novo Nordisk to become the largest endowment in the world. And around year twelve—roughly 4,386 days from now—we’ll reach $1 trillion.

Of course, growth never follows a straight line. Some seasons we’ll leap ahead. Others we’ll slog through blizzards. And yes—there’s a good chance we won’t make it at all. Everest is littered with the frozen remains of big dreams. But we know the size of the mountain now. We know the climb will be hard.

And we also know what waits at the summit: a self-sustaining engine that funds human creativity forever.

An Endowment big enough to underwrite the next Renaissance.

Love,
René Pinnell
Founder of Artizen