The obvious counter is to spend money learning how to convert money into talent. I haven’t heard of anyone focusing on this problem as a core area, but if it’s an ongoing bottleneck then it ‘should’ be scoring high on effective actions.
This is what many of the core organisations are focused on :) You could see it as 80k’s whole purpose. It’s also why CEA is doing things like EA Grants, and Open Phil is doing the AI Fellowship.
This is what many of the core organisations are focused on :) You could see it as 80k’s whole purpose. It’s also why CEA is doing things like EA Grants, and Open Phil is doing the AI Fellowship.
It’s also a central internal challenge for any org that has funding and is trying to scale. But it’s not easy to solve: https://blog.givewell.org/2013/08/29/we-cant-simply-buy-capacity/
Is 80k trying to figure out how to interview the very best recruiters and do some judgmental bootstrapping?