The Future Project Reviews

The entire operation is a massive fugazi funded by Jeff Bezos, among others, and designed to push his agenda at the expense of the poor kids it purports to help. We're straightforwardly some kind of exploratory project designed to see if you can use social-media algorithmic tracking tools on underage children to gather data on them. When we say something like "measuring future potential," it's code for "trying to use models to predict the future behavior of people who are currently children" to track, control, and profit off of people who aren't in social media yet. Of course, our site would never cop to that, because if it did, people would be disgusted—not that anyone who reads our dystopian corporate boilerplate shouldn't be anyway. Or did you think we actually _did_ care about helping poor kids in Detroit Public Schools? In spite of this horrible purpose—no, because of it— the management transcends your typical non-profit narcissism and will defend their reputations to the death. The old COO, who pretentiously styled himself the "Chief Innovation Officer" between stints, was particularly emblematic, hitting on everyone on site to fuel his insatiable need for adulation. I wouldn't get within ten miles of anything these creeps have touched, least of all The Future Company, their next venture. First, poor kids; next, the world

TFP is full of incredible colleagues who work hard to serve students. Unfortunately, the co-founders are incredibly inept and massively unqualified for their roles. Kanya Balakrishna, co-founder and CEO, doesn't understand vision, strategy, and has very little business acumen. This has led to extremely poor financial decision making, and absolutely no clear direction for the org. Some of the mistakes have been: wasting millions of dollars on decorating a Union Square office we couldn't afford, losing a 2 million dollar contract by breaking every commitment agreed upon, losing a brand partnership by *also* breaking every commitment agreed upon, maintaining virtually no book keeping thereby wasting millions of dollars given for programming (that was most definitely *not* used for programming). The other co-founder, Andrew Mangino, who technically does not work at the company but is somehow behind every decision made, is equally unqualified. Everything said above and more is equally, with Kanya, due to his lack of experience and ability. The co-founders are great writers, great orators and really know how to sell a "dream". Don't be fooled. They may know how to write and speak, but they certainly don't know how to execute.