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40th percentile
MIT-trained nuclear physicist serving as U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House
Credibility
Technical Depth · 70th percentile
- Most recent public GitHub push was 108 days ago, within the last year.
- Active builder on GitHub with 19 public non-fork repositories.
- Identified GitHub account for Ethan Klein (@ethanKlein) with 19 public repos.
- Tenured GitHub account created in 2011, over 5 years old.
- Identified Stack Overflow account for Ethan Klein with 41 reputation.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)whitehouse.gov ranks #272 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 12 and 988 citations across 37 works in nuclear and particle physics.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Most recent public GitHub push was 108 days ago, within the last year.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Active builder on GitHub with 19 public non-fork repositories.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Identified GitHub account for Ethan Klein (@ethanKlein) with 19 public repos.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Tenured GitHub account created in 2011, over 5 years old.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Ethan Klein with 41 reputation.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the same room as defense tech VCs and deep tech founders who actively recruit government-credentialed advisors and board members. Dinners and roundtables focused on nuclear security, AI policy, and tough tech are where your MIT PhD and White House CTO title become genuine conversation starters rather than résumé lines. You also need a small, high-trust space to pressure-test your post-government transition options — venture, academia, or founding — before the clock runs out on your current role.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA defense tech VC dinner with partners from Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism fund and Shield Capital to position your NNSA fellowship and Lawrence Livermore background as an active advisory asset
- introsA Stanford GSB alumni roundtable with deep tech and climate tech founders and investors where your nuclear engineering PhD is a genuine differentiator for deals involving fission, fusion, or grid-scale energy
- tacticalAn MIT Engine Government Venture Fellow dinner with Tough Tech portfolio founders actively seeking technical advisors and first board members with credible public-sector and national-security credentials
- wellbeingA small offsite dinner for current and former White House and OSTP technology officials planning their post-government moves into venture, deep tech founding, or policy-adjacent academia
- positioningA closed-door workshop with editors from Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, and Science & Global Security to pressure-test op-ed and journal submission strategies for nuclear security and AI policy thought leadership
- introsA happy hour for NNSA fellows and Lawrence Livermore alumni who have crossed into defense tech startups or venture, to map warm paths into Shield Capital, Founders Fund, and Lockheed Martin Ventures deal flow
- tacticalA Tough Tech founder build night focused on open-sourcing policy-tech and nuclear-safety tools, with MIT Engine and Breakthrough Energy Fellows who have shipped public technical artifacts alongside government credentials
- positioningA dinner with Nature, Science, and high-impact defense-adjacent journal editors and researchers publishing above h-index 20 to map a concrete submission strategy for your 37-paper body of work