CEA / EVF (I’d never heard it called EVF before FTX)
The reorganization was announced on 2022-09-13 (post) so it predates the FTX collapse by about two months. But it wasn’t very well publicized and some public information was slow to be updated.
Did anyone else find the title of that post (“CEA Ops is now EV Ops”) a bit confusing?
When I first saw it, I thought, “oh, it seems like a team/sub-org within the CEA changed its name. Cool” and didn’t think much else about it. It didn’t strike me as important enough for me to click the title and read the post.
It was only months later, by reading an EA Forum comment in another post, that I noticed that CEA UK (the umbrella org) had changed its name to Effective Ventures. When I read the comment, I spent some time trying to find an official announcement, and it took me a while to realize that it was that post.
I’m confused about why that title was chosen over titles that made it clear that it was the CEA umbrella org that changed its name, rather than only a specific team within it.
If I were a cynic, I’d have thought they were trying to demonstrate they were separable entities for legal reasons when they knew the risk was hitting the fan.
The reorganization was announced on 2022-09-13 (post) so it predates the FTX collapse by about two months. But it wasn’t very well publicized and some public information was slow to be updated.
Previously there was:
CEA (the umbrella org)
CEA (the community building project)
80k
GWWC
etc
And as of September it’s now:
EVF (the umbrella org)
CEA (the community building project)
80k
GWWC
etc
Did anyone else find the title of that post (“CEA Ops is now EV Ops”) a bit confusing?
When I first saw it, I thought, “oh, it seems like a team/sub-org within the CEA changed its name. Cool” and didn’t think much else about it. It didn’t strike me as important enough for me to click the title and read the post.
It was only months later, by reading an EA Forum comment in another post, that I noticed that CEA UK (the umbrella org) had changed its name to Effective Ventures. When I read the comment, I spent some time trying to find an official announcement, and it took me a while to realize that it was that post.
I’m confused about why that title was chosen over titles that made it clear that it was the CEA umbrella org that changed its name, rather than only a specific team within it.
Wrote up a disambiguation post
This is even worse than I thought, this is right in the window of “rats fleeing the boat”
Sam Trabucco left Alameda on 24aug (https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/1562519114979356673)
Bret left FTX.us on 27sep (https://twitter.com/BrettHarrison88/status/1574782901748727809)
If I were a cynic, I’d have thought they were trying to demonstrate they were separable entities for legal reasons when they knew the risk was hitting the fan.
(I don’t believe this, but I’m 20% this is true)
They weren’t and aren’t separate legal entities. The change clarified the one actual org’s internal structure.