Trevor Cribben Merrill (Imitatio Executive Director)
Stanford French PhD — Girard-Direct-Student → Operational Continuity
Stanford French PhD. Direct Girard student during Stanford 1981-1995 era.
Also in Girardian Operator Network
Peter Thiel (Apex Girardian Operator)Stanford 1985-1989 → Founders Fund / Palantir / AnJ.D. Vance (Catholic-Postliberal Inversion Operator)Yale Law/Mithril Capital → Senator/VP — PersecutioCurtis Yarvin (Diagnostic Weaponization Operator)Mencius Moldbug/Tlon → DOGE/RAGE ArchitectMarc Andreessen (Accelerationist Asymmetry Operator)a16z → Techno-Optimist Manifesto / Patron Saint NiSam Altman (Unattributed Mimetic-Rivalry Embodiment)OpenAI/Y Combinator — November 2023 Failed PharmakReid Hoffman (Utilitarian-Extraction Operator)LinkedIn/Greylock/Inflection AI — Centrist Mimetic