Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
“If you talk to venture capitalists in the Bay Area, where we’re chatting, they tend to focus much more on the person than the project. For Emergent Ventures, I think we need both the person and the project.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- belief
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- 16 Oct 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I think, in the effective altruism community, we tend to give top priority to making sure that people are working on a really pressing problem, a problem that has a really huge scale that plausibly you can solve, and also that it’s neglected by other people. Do you think it’s more important to focus on finding opportunities that other people aren’t funding or to make sure that people are working on problems where they can have the largest impact? If you talk to venture capitalists in the Bay Area, where we’re chatting, they tend to focus much more on the person than the project. For Emergent Ventures, I think we need both the person and the project. But I still take a person-first approach. If you don’t have the right person, the project simply cannot come off. So first and foremost, you’re trying to figure out who’s talented enough to do something new. And throughout your career, how much has doing good guided your choice of what to work on?…
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