I’ll note that we’ve consistently been able to help such work find funding, because (as noted here), the bottleneck is available right-of-center opportunities rather than available funding.
I don’t currently believe this, and think you are mostly not exposed to most people who could be doing good work in the space (which is downstream of a bunch of other choices OP and GV made), and also overestimate the degree to which OP is helpful in getting the relevant projects funding (I know of 1-2 projects in this space which did ultimately get funding, where OP was a bit involved, but my sense is was overall slightly anti-helpful).
If you know people who could do good work in the space, please point them to our RFP! As for being anti-helpful in some cases, I’m guessing that was cases where we thought the opportunity wasn’t a great opportunity despite it being right-of-center (which is a point in favor, in my opinion), but I’m not sure.
I don’t currently believe this, and think you are mostly not exposed to most people who could be doing good work in the space (which is downstream of a bunch of other choices OP and GV made), and also overestimate the degree to which OP is helpful in getting the relevant projects funding (I know of 1-2 projects in this space which did ultimately get funding, where OP was a bit involved, but my sense is was overall slightly anti-helpful).
If you know people who could do good work in the space, please point them to our RFP! As for being anti-helpful in some cases, I’m guessing that was cases where we thought the opportunity wasn’t a great opportunity despite it being right-of-center (which is a point in favor, in my opinion), but I’m not sure.