Ben Kuhn

Karma: 3,058

I’m the CTO of Wave. We build financial infrastructure for unbanked people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Personal site (incl various non-EA-related essays): https://www.benkuhn.net/

Email: ben dot s dot kuhn at the most common email address suffix

There is now an EA Managers Slack

Ben Kuhn9 Jan 2023 15:48 UTC

40 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Some notes on common challenges building EA orgs

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC

211 points

26 comments4 min readEA link

Want advice on management/organization-building?

Ben Kuhn15 Nov 2022 3:40 UTC

141 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

The biggest risk of free-spending EA is not optics or motivated cognition, but grift

Ben Kuhn14 May 2022 2:13 UTC

179 points

27 comments4 min readEA link

Tips for asking people for things

Ben Kuhn5 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC

135 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

Making large donation decisions as a person focused on direct work

Ben Kuhn27 Dec 2021 18:19 UTC

37 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

EA Infrastructure Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC

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99 comments42 min readEA link

What I learned from working at GiveWell

Ben Kuhn22 Feb 2021 6:31 UTC

55 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

We’re Lincoln Quirk & Ben Kuhn from Wave, AMA!

Ben Kuhn27 Oct 2020 17:34 UTC

77 points

45 comments3 min readEA link

Why and how to start a for-profit company serving emerging markets

Ben Kuhn6 Nov 2019 1:00 UTC

148 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

“Why Nations Fail” and the long-termist view of global poverty

Ben Kuhn16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC

161 points

20 comments13 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

[Question] Has your “EA worldview” changed over time? How and why?

Ben Kuhn23 Feb 2019 14:22 UTC

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13 comments1 min readEA link

Where I gave and why in 2016

Ben Kuhn6 Jan 2017 5:10 UTC

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1 comment4 min readEA link

[link] GiveWell’s 2015 recommendations are out!

Ben Kuhn21 Nov 2015 2:49 UTC

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Solving donation coordination problems

Ben Kuhn28 May 2015 1:04 UTC

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30 comments1 min readEA link

How important is marginal earning to give?

Ben Kuhn19 May 2015 20:41 UTC

16 points

72 comments1 min readEA link

Explaining impact purchases

Ben Kuhn16 Apr 2015 0:53 UTC

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Tech job Q&A

Ben Kuhn19 Mar 2015 17:52 UTC

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Results from a survey of people’s views on donation matching

Ben Kuhn1 Mar 2015 7:30 UTC

5 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

[cross-post] Does donation matching work?

Ben Kuhn11 Jan 2015 3:49 UTC

9 points

13 comments1 min readEA link