Jeff Stine works on how we discover, enable, support, and sustain consequential new ideas.

I write about innovation and systems, back promising ideas and the people pursuing them, and build institutions for long-horizon exploration and discovery.

Jeff Stine

Essays on innovation and discovery.

The Long Horizon

Innovation Layers

A framework for seeing innovation as a layered system and for finding the interfaces where promising ideas stall or gain momentum.

The Long Horizon

On Generative Wandering

A case for long-horizon, taste-guided exploration and the conditions that allow it to flourish.

The Long Horizon

The Objective Paradox

Why seemingly bad but novel ideas are often discarded before their potential becomes visible.

Experience and practice

Work across ideas, capital, and institutions.

Jeff leads Project Aeon and serves as an Executive in Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His experience spans early-stage investing, more than fifteen years of private-company board service, strategic advisory work at Lazard, and service as a U.S. Army infantry officer.

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Engagements

Advisory work and public conversations.

Jeff is available for a limited number of advisory engagements with people and institutions working on consequential ideas. He also participates in select talks, podcasts, and other public conversations.