This is/was largely about fundraising, which seems pretty dependent on this, especially in EA/startup spaces. One potential funder specifically passed because of this. I’m sympathetic to this direction, because as a funder (resource allocator) you need some way of evaluating cost/benefit/risk/expected-payoff, and the exercise itself can be pretty useful for better calibration (even if still not precise enough to be action-guiding).
I guess a better framing for this lesson would be “I should have compromised to get the resources I needed to execute my vision, because otherwise the chance my vision succeeds is significantly worse”. Not all compromises are worth it of course, but this one probably was!
This is/was largely about fundraising, which seems pretty dependent on this, especially in EA/startup spaces. One potential funder specifically passed because of this. I’m sympathetic to this direction, because as a funder (resource allocator) you need some way of evaluating cost/benefit/risk/expected-payoff, and the exercise itself can be pretty useful for better calibration (even if still not precise enough to be action-guiding).
I guess a better framing for this lesson would be “I should have compromised to get the resources I needed to execute my vision, because otherwise the chance my vision succeeds is significantly worse”. Not all compromises are worth it of course, but this one probably was!