GiveWell has argued in multiple blog posts that interesting projects often do not appear until a major funder signals an interest in funding a project. This aligns with my experience running the Technology and Innovation department at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and with YCombinator’s recently announced Requests for Startups. We designed Effective Altruism Ventures to provide this signal for EA-aligned projects.
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Entrepreneurs without their own project, but who are interested in working on one of the projects we recommend.
Where are these recommendations? Do you have YC-style Request For Startups somewhere or something? I can’t find them. “EA-aligned projects” doesn’t seem like a very concrete signal (the suggestion “start an EA-aligned project” is a lot less actionable than e.g. “replace email” or whatever the new RFSs are).
We have a list of these projects that we’ve been circulating to interested people privately. After we’ve had a chance to add any additional funders on the basis of this blog post, we’ll add the list projects we think are interesting and the list of projects funders think are interesting to the website.
Where are these recommendations? Do you have YC-style Request For Startups somewhere or something? I can’t find them. “EA-aligned projects” doesn’t seem like a very concrete signal (the suggestion “start an EA-aligned project” is a lot less actionable than e.g. “replace email” or whatever the new RFSs are).
We have a list of these projects that we’ve been circulating to interested people privately. After we’ve had a chance to add any additional funders on the basis of this blog post, we’ll add the list projects we think are interesting and the list of projects funders think are interesting to the website.
Cool, I look forward to seeing it.