Ian Hathaway is a venture capital investor at OpenAI Startup Fund who co-authored "The Startup Community Way" and applies complexity science to evaluate how startup ecosystems can adapt and self-organize over time. He combines his background as an economist who studied firm formation and regional innovation with hands-on experience founding startups, and focuses on backing "outsider" founders building AI-native companies outside traditional Silicon Valley hubs. Ian Hathaway is a venture capital investor at OpenAI Startup Fund who co-authored "The Startup Community Way" and applies complexity science to evaluate how startup ecosystems can adapt and self-organize over time. He combines his background as an economist who studied firm formation and regional innovation with hands-on experience founding startups, and focuses on backing "outsider" founders building AI-native companies outside traditional Silicon Valley hubs.