Looking back at your journey from Charity Science to Ambitious Impact, what’s one major strategic assumption you made early on that turned out to be completely wrong? How did that realization change your approach to launching new charities?
Tons of things. A big category of stuff that comes to mind is underrating certain traits (e.g. hard work) and overvaluing others (e.g. domain experience). A more unique answer (as I often say the above one during talks etc) would be focusing too much on the EA movement and not building strong enough relationships outside of EA (both for AIM directly but also for our charities).
Looking back at your journey from Charity Science to Ambitious Impact, what’s one major strategic assumption you made early on that turned out to be completely wrong? How did that realization change your approach to launching new charities?
Tons of things. A big category of stuff that comes to mind is underrating certain traits (e.g. hard work) and overvaluing others (e.g. domain experience). A more unique answer (as I often say the above one during talks etc) would be focusing too much on the EA movement and not building strong enough relationships outside of EA (both for AIM directly but also for our charities).