[minwcnt5]

And interestingly, Patri Friedman used to work at Google...

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Patri only worked on prediction markets at google, so far as I know, and left to spend more time on Seasteading and related projects.

Source: he's a friend of a family member.

[jedc]

Everyone's work on prediction markets at Google was a 20% project, so Patri would have had his main job doing something else.