Most organizations within EA are relatively small (<20). Why do you think that’s the case and why is RP different?
I’m not exactly sure and I think you’d have to ask some other smaller organizations. My best guess is that scaling organizations is genuinely hard and risky, and I can understand other organizations may feel that they work best and are more comfortable with being small. I think RP has been different by:
Working in multiple different cause areas lets us tap into multiple different funding sources, thus increasing the amount of money we would take. It also increased the amount of work we wanted to do and the amount of people we wanted to hire.
By being 100% remote-first from the beginning, we had a much larger talent pool to tap into. I think we’ve also been more willing to take chances on more junior-level researchers which has also broadened our talent pool. This allowed us to hire more.
I think just a general willingness and aspiration to be a big research organization and take on this risk, rather than intentionally go it slow.
I’m not exactly sure and I think you’d have to ask some other smaller organizations. My best guess is that scaling organizations is genuinely hard and risky, and I can understand other organizations may feel that they work best and are more comfortable with being small. I think RP has been different by:
Working in multiple different cause areas lets us tap into multiple different funding sources, thus increasing the amount of money we would take. It also increased the amount of work we wanted to do and the amount of people we wanted to hire.
By being 100% remote-first from the beginning, we had a much larger talent pool to tap into. I think we’ve also been more willing to take chances on more junior-level researchers which has also broadened our talent pool. This allowed us to hire more.
I think just a general willingness and aspiration to be a big research organization and take on this risk, rather than intentionally go it slow.
This makes sense. Do you have any explicated intentions for how big you want to get?