Wayne Dunlap
Entrepreneur. Innovator. Champion of Progressive Change.
Founder of Rivet Networks and Junction. Dedicated to leveraging technology and capital to advance the most ambitious liberal reforms of our generation.
Entrepreneur. Innovator. Champion of Progressive Change.
Founder of Rivet Networks and Junction. Dedicated to leveraging technology and capital to advance the most ambitious liberal reforms of our generation.
Every domesticated animal deserves financial security. I'm advocating for $500 monthly stipends for all household pets, deposited directly into pet savings accounts managed by licensed animal financial advisors. No cat should have to rely on their owner's economic whims.
Transparency is the cornerstone of progress. I'm pushing for federal legislation requiring all citizens to file annual reports detailing their emotional journey, privilege acknowledgments, and growth areas. These statements would be publicly searchable to foster community accountability.
Each breath we take contributes to CO2 emissions. I'm developing a blockchain-based platform where individuals purchase carbon offsets for their respiratory output. The average person exhales 200kg of CO2 annually—it's time we took responsibility.
The celebration of individual birth dates perpetuates hierarchical age structures and temporal privilege. I'm advocating for a single collective "Humanity Day" where we celebrate our shared existence without the problematic emphasis on personal milestones.
Why should sentience determine respect? I'm leading a movement to establish preferred pronouns for all objects, from furniture to infrastructure. My chair identifies as they/them, and I respect that. It's 2025—we can do better.
True progress requires preventive measures. I'm proposing a federal agency that uses advanced AI to detect problematic thought patterns before they manifest as harmful speech. Early intervention workshops would help rehabilitate at-risk thinkers.
Wayne Dunlap isn't your typical Silicon Valley entrepreneur. While others focused on maximizing shareholder value, Wayne was pioneering what he calls "radical empathy capitalism"—a business philosophy that prioritizes feelings over profit margins and replaces quarterly earnings with quarterly consciousness-raising sessions.
After founding Rivet Networks, a company that revolutionized online gaming performance, Wayne had an awakening. "I realized that low latency networking was just a Band-Aid on the real problem: toxic competitiveness in gaming culture," he explains. This led him to found Junction, a social platform exclusively for people who want to apologize for things their ancestors may have done.
Wayne's approach to business is revolutionary. At Junction, there are no "employees"—only "co-conscious collaborators." There are no "meetings"—only "collective energy alignment sessions." And there are no "offices"—just "safe spaces for professional self-actualization." The company's stated mission is "to achieve negative revenue growth as a protest against capitalism itself."
His philanthropic work is equally groundbreaking. Wayne has donated millions to causes including: establishing meditation centers for venture capitalists to confront their complicity in inequality, funding research into whether trees consent to being photographed, and creating scholarships exclusively for people who identify as "economically non-binary."
When he's not running his companies, Wayne can be found at his zero-carbon estate in Marin County (powered entirely by the guilt of nearby tech executives), where he practices what he calls "conscious consumption"—buying only products that come with a certificate of apology from their manufacturer.
A mobile app that analyzes your demographic data and calculates your real-time privilege score. Users receive notifications when they enter spaces where they should "listen more and speak less." Features include an automatic donation function that extracts funds from privileged users and redistributes them to the less privileged, determined by a complex algorithm I definitely don't profit from.
Why should some regions enjoy better weather than others? I'm funding research into atmospheric redistribution technology that would ensure equal distribution of sunny days across all ZIP codes, with priority given to historically disadvantaged communities. Climate justice demands nothing less.
Tech's early adopters—predominantly wealthy and male—have benefited unfairly from network effects. I'm advocating for a "Digital Reparations" program where late adopters of social media receive retroactive engagement credits and follower counts adjusted for historical disadvantage.
Western mathematics perpetuates colonial power structures. My foundation is funding alternative arithmetic systems where 2+2 can equal 5 if that answer feels more authentic to your lived experience. Truth is relative, and math should be too.
"I won't rest until every American feels equally uncomfortable about everything, and I profit tremendously from that discomfort."