I’d be excited to see a career advising service helping tech EAs earning-to-give select, interview at, negotiate with, and read the equity terms of, top startups. I don’t know you well (read: at all), but based on your profile on the Forum, I think it’s plausible you’d be great at this.
I think this can be worth a fair amount of money and career capital in expectation for your advisees, and you can also leverage skills you build doing this into helping technical EAs transitioning to doing important software work for EA startups or ML safety projects.
More generally, 80000 Hours is very oversubscribed, and I’m excited for a future with (at least a few attempts at) doing career-specific coaching.
If you’re interested in this, you may want to coordinate with Michael Dickens (or somebody else who understands startup equity) and the Training for Good people.
I’d be excited to see a career advising service helping tech EAs earning-to-give select, interview at, negotiate with, and read the equity terms of, top startups
I (A) do this (except for the equity-terms part!), and (B) agree this is a really low hanging fruit, there is so much optimization that can be done in most job searches.
Training for good
I talked to them (to Steve) at EAG and we exchanged a few emails since, comparing our approaches. Thank you for the advice, indeed relevant.
Equity terms:
I don’t read them since I’m not a lawyer and don’t even know how those things work outside of Israel. I give my mentees my priors, and for the Israeli ones, I offer them to talk to a lawyer I trust (my lawyer. Though he does charge. I don’t get percents or anything of course).
I don’t know Michael Dickens [edit: Ah, he wrote the earning-to-give post], but if I could maybe refer people to him for reviewing equity terms, I think this would be useful
Aiming for startups instead of BigTech
I’m not convinced, and this is very relevant for me so I’d be really happy to discuss it [edit: I see you replied to some of it, thanks!].
Here is my main kind-of-objection, and here are some thoughts about the financial calculations (though I defer to you/michael on anything financial).
I’m also curious to explore the Meta Options model, which I didn’t yet.
P.S
I am convinced enough to point people to the post. Also, calculations such as you he did there are really good tools/resources for me, just so you know I actually care about it
I’d be excited to see a career advising service helping tech EAs earning-to-give select, interview at, negotiate with, and read the equity terms of, top startups. I don’t know you well (read: at all), but based on your profile on the Forum, I think it’s plausible you’d be great at this.
I believe more EAs should transition from BigTech work to top startups based on the expected earnings analysis here (which I advised) and the career capital arguments here.
I think this can be worth a fair amount of money and career capital in expectation for your advisees, and you can also leverage skills you build doing this into helping technical EAs transitioning to doing important software work for EA startups or ML safety projects.
More generally, 80000 Hours is very oversubscribed, and I’m excited for a future with (at least a few attempts at) doing career-specific coaching.
If you’re interested in this, you may want to coordinate with Michael Dickens (or somebody else who understands startup equity) and the Training for Good people.
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Negotiation advice
I (A) do this (except for the equity-terms part!), and (B) agree this is a really low hanging fruit, there is so much optimization that can be done in most job searches.
Training for good
I talked to them (to Steve) at EAG and we exchanged a few emails since, comparing our approaches. Thank you for the advice, indeed relevant.
Equity terms:
I don’t read them since I’m not a lawyer and don’t even know how those things work outside of Israel. I give my mentees my priors, and for the Israeli ones, I offer them to talk to a lawyer I trust (my lawyer. Though he does charge. I don’t get percents or anything of course).
I don’t know Michael Dickens [edit: Ah, he wrote the earning-to-give post], but if I could maybe refer people to him for reviewing equity terms, I think this would be useful
Aiming for startups instead of BigTech
I’m not convinced, and this is very relevant for me so I’d be really happy to discuss it [edit: I see you replied to some of it, thanks!].
Here is my main kind-of-objection, and here are some thoughts about the financial calculations (though I defer to you/michael on anything financial).
I’m also curious to explore the Meta Options model, which I didn’t yet.
P.S
I am convinced enough to point people to the post. Also, calculations such as
youhe did there are really good tools/resources for me, just so you know I actually care about it