Fund the future of media
The Elysian is a media collective imagining a better future.
Our audience
150,000+ monthly views // 20,000+ subscribers including:
Employees at OpenAI, Stripe, Y Combinator, Disney, Substack, Spotify, Audible, Wattpad
VC investors Album VC, Kickstart Fund, Urbanist VC
Progress thinkers at Schmidt Futures, Progress Institute, Roots of Progress, Abundance Institute, Progress Ireland
Intellectuals like Matthew Yglesias, Judd Legum, Brad DeLong, Bill Bishop, Michael Moore
Professors and students at Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, NYU
Editors at The Information, The New Atlantis, Every, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Hearst
We produce collaborative media projects
We’re a writers’ collective thinking through the most important ideas of our time. Here are some of our projects:
Become a patron
We are looking for patrons interested in supporting our projects and being part of what we are creating. Patrons:
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Your contribution will directly fund editorial operations including writers, graphic design and illustration, printing, and shipping. More importantly, you’ll be funding a better media system: A collective of artists imagining a better future.
Email elle@elysian.press for more information.
About Elle Griffin
I am the founder of the Elysian Collective. For my work in human progress, I was named an O’Shaughnessy Grantee, a Roots of Progress fellow, and a Substack fellow. My newsletter has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, The Information, Publisher’s Weekly, Means of Creation, and Morning Brew.
I want to see our media ecosystem transformed from doomer sensationalism, partisan journalism, and dystopian thought, to solutions-oriented journalism, speculative brainstorming, and generative thought about how we can create something better. I’d love to see that media ecosystem owned and operated by independent writers and podcasters and filmmakers rather than media moguls with an agenda, an algorithm, and an ad-captured sensationalist bent.
I’m even optimistic enough to believe that by changing our media ecosystem, we could change our outlook on the world. And be inspired to create a better one.
I hope you’ll join us.
“Journalism meets sci-fi.” —Chris Best, CEO Substack
“Elle’s reinterpreting how our civilization is structured from the bottom up and the inside out—I love it, It’s a fantastic project.” —Parag Khanna, author of Move, The Future is Asian
“Elle is doing some of the most important work right now—imagining the future of how we live as technology changes rapidly and distrust continues to grow in legacy systems of power.” —Katie O’Connell, OpenAI