I’d love to build campuses in other cities around the world. There’s lots of incredible people with strong reasons to be in other places. When we talk in the team about what success looks like in the next 5-10 years, part of it is a major hub (e.g. 500 people) in the Bay, and growing hubs (200 people, 100 people, 50 people, etc) in multiple other places like the ones you mention.
You say “NYC and other cities are crying out for a salary-paying organization that will do mission-aligned work”. I will point out there’s a little chicken-and-egg problem here, in that the Bay already has several rationalist and longtermist orgs such that there’s been a good way for us to get a foothold in starting an office. In some ways there’s lots of low-hanging fruits of things to do, but in other ways it’s a real challenge to find founding teams and help them execute on a project such that they can employ people.
But it certainly isn’t a defeater, I do see paths to helping build the research and engineering projects for people to work on in these places.
And if we’re successful, and are plotting to build in NYC, I look forward to talking with you (and many of the other excellent people in NYC) about it :)
I’d love to build campuses in other cities around the world. There’s lots of incredible people with strong reasons to be in other places. When we talk in the team about what success looks like in the next 5-10 years, part of it is a major hub (e.g. 500 people) in the Bay, and growing hubs (200 people, 100 people, 50 people, etc) in multiple other places like the ones you mention.
You say “NYC and other cities are crying out for a salary-paying organization that will do mission-aligned work”. I will point out there’s a little chicken-and-egg problem here, in that the Bay already has several rationalist and longtermist orgs such that there’s been a good way for us to get a foothold in starting an office. In some ways there’s lots of low-hanging fruits of things to do, but in other ways it’s a real challenge to find founding teams and help them execute on a project such that they can employ people.
But it certainly isn’t a defeater, I do see paths to helping build the research and engineering projects for people to work on in these places.
And if we’re successful, and are plotting to build in NYC, I look forward to talking with you (and many of the other excellent people in NYC) about it :)