We had some very cool people contact us after reading Will’s book, who were potential staff members.
EAG has been useful for finding staff. Mostly because EAO had such a large team in the Bay, they ended up knowing and checking out lots of potential hires who I didn’t already know. The list of applications to EAG was also a little useful.
I think we get slightly more traffic because the EA community promotes us more (e.g. more FB likes of posts because the EA FB group is larger; EA newsletter recommends our posts), but it’s not a big factor in traffic growth.
The student groups helped us get lots of newsletter subs. We got 7-8k at the start of this academic year, vs. 3k last year. (though we also put a bunch more effort into it)
We also get a lot of benefit in being able to introduce new people to members of the community, and my sense is that the quality of the introductions we’re able to make keeps improving.
The main things I’ve noticed at 80k:
We had some very cool people contact us after reading Will’s book, who were potential staff members.
EAG has been useful for finding staff. Mostly because EAO had such a large team in the Bay, they ended up knowing and checking out lots of potential hires who I didn’t already know. The list of applications to EAG was also a little useful.
I think we get slightly more traffic because the EA community promotes us more (e.g. more FB likes of posts because the EA FB group is larger; EA newsletter recommends our posts), but it’s not a big factor in traffic growth.
The student groups helped us get lots of newsletter subs. We got 7-8k at the start of this academic year, vs. 3k last year. (though we also put a bunch more effort into it)
We also get a lot of benefit in being able to introduce new people to members of the community, and my sense is that the quality of the introductions we’re able to make keeps improving.