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Dryden Brown

Co-Founder & CEO, Praxis

About

Dryden Brown co-founded Praxis with Charlie Callinan to build a new American frontier city — a network-state project that has raised $525M in milestone-based financing from Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Balaji Srinivasan, Apollo Projects, and others. He has run residential experiments in New York, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami, and in 2025 announced plans for 'Atlas,' a proposed city near Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Previous roles

  • Quantitative Researcher / Investor, Unnamed Long/Short Hedge Fund

Notable work

  • “Acceleration Zones” — an authored proposal for new-city jurisdictions intended to accelerate technological progress and host frontier-technology companies.
  • Praxis / Bluebook Cities master plan — build a values-aligned online community, partner with a host government to establish a new city, and grow the resulting physical city.

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