One extra thought is that there was a longtermist incubator project for a while, but they decided to close it down. I think one reason was they thought there weren’t enough potential entrepreneurs in the first place, so the bigger bottleneck was movement growth rather than mentoring. I think another bottleneck was having an entrepreneur who could run the incubator itself, and also a lack of ideas that can be easily taken forward without a lot more thinking. (Though I could be mis-remembering.)
I think they were pretty low profile, and the types of things that Jan-WillemvanPutten is suggesting are about being more present/visible in EA in order to attract a subculture to develop more. I think this example supports his main point more actually, because movement growth is quite driven by culture and attractors for different subcultures.
(As an aside, I was engaged with the longtermist incubator and found it helpful/useful.) (Another aside, I can think of a few downsides of Jan-WillemvanPutten’s specific suggestion, but I think the important part is the visibility and culture building aspect.)
One extra thought is that there was a longtermist incubator project for a while, but they decided to close it down. I think one reason was they thought there weren’t enough potential entrepreneurs in the first place, so the bigger bottleneck was movement growth rather than mentoring. I think another bottleneck was having an entrepreneur who could run the incubator itself, and also a lack of ideas that can be easily taken forward without a lot more thinking. (Though I could be mis-remembering.)
I think they were pretty low profile, and the types of things that Jan-WillemvanPutten is suggesting are about being more present/visible in EA in order to attract a subculture to develop more. I think this example supports his main point more actually, because movement growth is quite driven by culture and attractors for different subcultures.
(As an aside, I was engaged with the longtermist incubator and found it helpful/useful.)
(Another aside, I can think of a few downsides of Jan-WillemvanPutten’s specific suggestion, but I think the important part is the visibility and culture building aspect.)