Probably lots of motivated reasoning here as I am doing something quite entrepreneurial myself: A positive about doing something in the early stages is that if we get lots of additional EA funding in a few years (there are indications chances of this are significant), we will likely again be scrambling for people to start new projects, just like in the “FTX days”. It would be good both for:
Candidates to build career capital, knowledge and skills in starting something new, and
For these candidates to have a track record from doing so to demonstrate to grantmakers
I think these skills are somewhat uniquely built in doing something as close as possible to EA entrepreneurship.
Probably lots of motivated reasoning here as I am doing something quite entrepreneurial myself: A positive about doing something in the early stages is that if we get lots of additional EA funding in a few years (there are indications chances of this are significant), we will likely again be scrambling for people to start new projects, just like in the “FTX days”. It would be good both for:
Candidates to build career capital, knowledge and skills in starting something new, and
For these candidates to have a track record from doing so to demonstrate to grantmakers
I think these skills are somewhat uniquely built in doing something as close as possible to EA entrepreneurship.