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Audrey Zagazeta and the work before the groundbreaking
Before a project becomes a place, someone has to examine its consequences. Circlepoint’s president and CEO has built a career in that demanding space between California’s ambitions and the communities that live with them.
Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp is the co-founder and co-CEO of the Institute for Progress (IFP), a nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think tank he launched in 2022 with Caleb Watney to turn progress studies into concrete policy. He works at the intersection of metascience, high-skilled immigration, biosecurity, and infrastructure permitting, arguing that America's biggest obstacle to progress is not a shortage of ideas but a surplus of veto points. A George Mason economist by training, he became one of the most-followed voices of the abundance movement, translating dense regulatory questions into widely shared arguments for building more.