Pretty interesting consideration; it is one I have not thought about/​modelled that much. I wonder if someone could do a simple version of this by considering willingness to pay—e.g., how much would a different charity would pay for a given piece of IP? My guess, though, is that many things would be relatively low value compared to the yearly org costs (e.g., I’m not sure someone would pay more than one year of our AIM yearly budget for all our IP).
The biggest intangible asset that comes to mind, which I have not seen modelled much, is the implicit staff training that happens in certain jobs. E.g., if the average staff member goes on to a career five times higher than the jobs they were getting offered before, something quietly valuable has probably happened over their tenure. Shoutout to Founders Pledge for this, as I feel like I see a ton of really valuable people entering the EA job world via Founders Pledge. I think often the counterfactual is that they would get far less impactful jobs than they do post-working for FP.
Pretty interesting consideration; it is one I have not thought about/​modelled that much. I wonder if someone could do a simple version of this by considering willingness to pay—e.g., how much would a different charity would pay for a given piece of IP? My guess, though, is that many things would be relatively low value compared to the yearly org costs (e.g., I’m not sure someone would pay more than one year of our AIM yearly budget for all our IP).
The biggest intangible asset that comes to mind, which I have not seen modelled much, is the implicit staff training that happens in certain jobs. E.g., if the average staff member goes on to a career five times higher than the jobs they were getting offered before, something quietly valuable has probably happened over their tenure. Shoutout to Founders Pledge for this, as I feel like I see a ton of really valuable people entering the EA job world via Founders Pledge. I think often the counterfactual is that they would get far less impactful jobs than they do post-working for FP.