I haven’t thought about it deeply, but the main thing I was thinking here was that I think founders get the plurality of credit for the output of a company, partly because I just intuitively believe this, and partly because, apparently, not many people found things. This is an empirical claim, and it could be false e.g. in worlds where everyone tries to be a founder, and companies never grow, but my guess is that the EA community is not in that world. So this heuristic tracks (to some degree) high counterfactual impact/neglectedness.
I haven’t thought about it deeply, but the main thing I was thinking here was that I think founders get the plurality of credit for the output of a company, partly because I just intuitively believe this, and partly because, apparently, not many people found things. This is an empirical claim, and it could be false e.g. in worlds where everyone tries to be a founder, and companies never grow, but my guess is that the EA community is not in that world. So this heuristic tracks (to some degree) high counterfactual impact/neglectedness.