Almost titled “What we owe the Future Fund”, but I’ve already used that joke
- The team is fking amazing
- Avital -
- Leopold
- Regrantors are extremely good (and a good process)
- Transparency: Encouraging posts to be shared and published on EA Forum
- Look at that list of grants
- +1 for transparency
- Look at that writeup of learnings
- Experimenting in the space of grantmaking, and telling the world about the results
- Speed:
- Probably the team is bitterly disappointed, but I take another lesson: move fast.
- Look at what 4-5 people got done in <1year
- How much money they’ve moved
- They’re called the “future fund” but they sure got a lot stuff done in the here and now
EA Bahamas was also fking great
- Somewhat unrelated btw, predates Future Fund
- Joel Becker ran an amazing program (in terms of peer selection)
- More like YC than YC is today
- “New relationship energy” ⇒ “New incubator energy”
- Startups in starting things