Hi, I’m a CS student who is planning on earning to give. John Maxwell and I recently started a business (http://www.mealsquares.com) in order to try to improve on the default situation of software developer salaries. We figure we can accomplish several things with the entrepreneur route:
Give pretax dollars instead of post-tax salary dollars. (and hopefully more of them of course)
Spend more spare time working on effective things, for example helping out other EAs lower frictional costs that prevent them from being maximally effective.
Encourage the creation of other EA startups. We think there is some low hanging fruit in this space. (post on this forthcoming)
John and I are both highly interested in X-risk mitigation, which seems to suffer from a tragedy of the commons coordination problem.
Encourage the creation of other EA startups. We think there is some low hanging fruit in this space. (post on this forthcoming)
I’d be very interested to hear about this. As far as I know, MealSquares is the most successful startup by EAs at this point. A lot of people talk about it (including me) but most people don’t do it (including me), so it’s great to see some EAs putting their career where their mouth is.
Hi, I’m a CS student who is planning on earning to give. John Maxwell and I recently started a business (http://www.mealsquares.com) in order to try to improve on the default situation of software developer salaries. We figure we can accomplish several things with the entrepreneur route:
Give pretax dollars instead of post-tax salary dollars. (and hopefully more of them of course)
Spend more spare time working on effective things, for example helping out other EAs lower frictional costs that prevent them from being maximally effective.
Encourage the creation of other EA startups. We think there is some low hanging fruit in this space. (post on this forthcoming)
John and I are both highly interested in X-risk mitigation, which seems to suffer from a tragedy of the commons coordination problem.
I’d be very interested to hear about this. As far as I know, MealSquares is the most successful startup by EAs at this point. A lot of people talk about it (including me) but most people don’t do it (including me), so it’s great to see some EAs putting their career where their mouth is.