When all the sponsored projects have been spun out, will EV continue to exist? If so, what will it do?
“I plan to share other non-privileged information on lessons learned in the aftermath of FTX and encourage others to share their reflections as well.” Do you have an estimated timeline for this?
1. It’s unclear what the legal status of EV will be at the end of the process. If it does exist, I expect it would be in a minimalist fashion and I wouldn’t expect it to resemble what it has historically looked like (e.g. I don’t expect it to be a fiscal sponsor for multiple projects).
2. No specific timeline. It’s in a queue with other pieces of public communications I expect to do after I transition into a new role at CEA, and I’m not planning on it being the first piece.
I’d read “offboarding the projects which currently sit under the Effective Ventures umbrella. This means CEA, 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can and other EV-sponsored projects will transition to being independent legal entities” as “all of them” but now I’m less sure.
FWIW I’m pretty surprised and disappointed that my question about whether EV will continue to exist after the spinoffs never got a response. It’s a key piece of information about one of the most important EA orgs, and it’s clear that others are curious about it from the karma of my question, the comments replying to it, and the same question being raised in another thread. Even if the answer is “we don’t know yet”, that would be valuable to communicate. And if the answer is known, giving clarity to the rest of the community feels like extraordinarily low hanging fruit.
Thanks for this update! Two questions…
When all the sponsored projects have been spun out, will EV continue to exist? If so, what will it do?
“I plan to share other non-privileged information on lessons learned in the aftermath of FTX and encourage others to share their reflections as well.” Do you have an estimated timeline for this?
1. It’s unclear what the legal status of EV will be at the end of the process. If it does exist, I expect it would be in a minimalist fashion and I wouldn’t expect it to resemble what it has historically looked like (e.g. I don’t expect it to be a fiscal sponsor for multiple projects).
2. No specific timeline. It’s in a queue with other pieces of public communications I expect to do after I transition into a new role at CEA, and I’m not planning on it being the first piece.
Thanks for these updates Zach!
Related to (1) is the question: which sponsored projects are definitely being spun out?
I’d read “offboarding the projects which currently sit under the Effective Ventures umbrella. This means CEA, 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can and other EV-sponsored projects will transition to being independent legal entities” as “all of them” but now I’m less sure.
I guess you’re right, but even so I’d ask:
Is it 11 new orgs, or will some of them stick together (perhaps with CEA) when they leave?
What about other orgs not on the website, like GovAI and Owain’s team?
Separately, are any teams going to leave CEA?
FWIW I’m pretty surprised and disappointed that my question about whether EV will continue to exist after the spinoffs never got a response. It’s a key piece of information about one of the most important EA orgs, and it’s clear that others are curious about it from the karma of my question, the comments replying to it, and the same question being raised in another thread. Even if the answer is “we don’t know yet”, that would be valuable to communicate. And if the answer is known, giving clarity to the rest of the community feels like extraordinarily low hanging fruit.