I’m sorry to hear to join Alameda under the impression that it would be the opposite of what it became to be, like happened to so many others, is the reason you quit the company you had founded. I didn’t know you stopped working at the company you founded to work at Alameda.
At the time, I thought you had maybe sold your stake in it or something so you’d have a lot of cash to donate while moving onto an opportunity to do way more good in some other job at the advice of 80k or whoever.
I thought it seemed strange you had left the company you founded then, given that it seemed unlikely you could find that much of a higher-impact job that would outweigh the value of the money you could gain to donate if you stuck at Health eFilings for a while longer. I was sad you left the company at that point because it seemed to me you could’ve gotten more good done there. I was glad to hear you were hired at the CEA, though I felt like it was strange to learn about your exciting new job a few months after you stopped working at Health eFilings, when I thought it’s something you’d want to tell the rest of us about right away.
In a way, I was right about all of that. I wish I had read this post when you first published it last year, though it’s still interesting to be someone who has also participated in the EA community for that long and to know the fuller story now.
I’m sorry to hear to join Alameda under the impression that it would be the opposite of what it became to be, like happened to so many others, is the reason you quit the company you had founded. I didn’t know you stopped working at the company you founded to work at Alameda.
At the time, I thought you had maybe sold your stake in it or something so you’d have a lot of cash to donate while moving onto an opportunity to do way more good in some other job at the advice of 80k or whoever. I thought it seemed strange you had left the company you founded then, given that it seemed unlikely you could find that much of a higher-impact job that would outweigh the value of the money you could gain to donate if you stuck at Health eFilings for a while longer. I was sad you left the company at that point because it seemed to me you could’ve gotten more good done there. I was glad to hear you were hired at the CEA, though I felt like it was strange to learn about your exciting new job a few months after you stopped working at Health eFilings, when I thought it’s something you’d want to tell the rest of us about right away.
In a way, I was right about all of that. I wish I had read this post when you first published it last year, though it’s still interesting to be someone who has also participated in the EA community for that long and to know the fuller story now.
Thanks Evan, I appreciate the kind words!
And yeah, in retrospect staying at HeF would almost certainly have been more valuable, but oh well...