Simone and Malcolm Collins

Simone Collins (née Smith; born 1987) and Malcolm Collins (born 1986) are an entrepreneurial husband-and-wife team who are primarily known for their views and advocacy related to pronatalism, a stance encouraging higher birth rates and expressing concerns about demographic decline and its implications on society and the economy.

They are the founders of Pronatalist.org, The Collins Institute for the Gifted, and The Pragmatist Foundation.

Malcolm Collins graduated from University of St. Andrews with a neuroscience degree and Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA.

Simone and Malcolm Collins previously worked in venture capital and technology sectors.

Simone previously served as the managing director for Dialog, a secretive invite-only social club co-founded by investor Peter Thiel.

Malcolm previously worked as a venture capitalist at TheVentures in South Korea.

The Collinses currently are the managing directors of the corporate wholesale travel agency Travelmax.

The couple has written five books in their Pragmatist Guide series.

Their book The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models was briefly on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List in 2023.

The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges.

They are the founders of Pronatalist.org, a non-profit initiative aimed at promoting and supporting high birth rates.

The Collinses fear that low fertility rates, especially among people they view as high-achieving, could lead to a decline in innovation and societal progress as well as the extinction of cultures, economic breakdown, and the collapse of civilization.

They are part of a network of tech elites, including figures like Elon Musk, who publicly express concerns about demographic trends leading to population collapse.

The Collinses are vocal supporters of using advanced reproductive technologies, including in vitro fertilisation and genetic screening, to promote higher birth rates among economically and intellectually productive populations.

They have been featured in discussions about their use of preimplantation genetic testing to select embryos.

The Collinses have been labelled as "hipster eugenicists" due to their advocacy for selecting embryos based on perceived desirable traits, such as high IQ, and they were speakers at The Natal Conference in 2023, a conference linked to far-right eugenicists.

Concerns have also been raised about the potential societal impacts of their views, with some suggesting that their approach could exacerbate social inequalities and promote divisive ideologies.

The Collinses are said to find the moniker "hipster eugenicists" rather amusing, but strongly disavow any form of racism and "scoffed at the idea that they were eugenicists".

Simone and Malcolm Collins married after Malcolm proposed on Reddit in 2013.

The Collinses have stated that they plan to have seven to thirteen children total.

As of 2024, they have four children.

They are, by order of birth: Octavian (son), Torsten (son), Titan Invictus (daughter), and Industry Americus (daughter).

The Collinses refuse to give their daughters traditionally feminine names, because they believe social research shows that women with feminine names are taken less seriously.

Beginning with their thirdborn Titan Invictus, the Collinses have used preimplantation genetic testing during IVF to select embryos with a desirable genetic makeup.