It is funded by Emergent Ventures, which was founded with the purpose of being a one-man shop. I’m pretty sure he still makes the final decisions, but is that the same thing? As you say, contra Zvi’s claim, Emergent Ventures has grown into a bureaucracy. What’s wrong with bureaucracies? Cowen appears to have solid control over EV. If the bureaucracy fails at the legible goal of being fast, he will simply fire it. But it is doing some filtering that he used to do, which is harder to police.
It is funded by Emergent Ventures, which was founded with the purpose of being a one-man shop. I’m pretty sure he still makes the final decisions, but is that the same thing? As you say, contra Zvi’s claim, Emergent Ventures has grown into a bureaucracy. What’s wrong with bureaucracies? Cowen appears to have solid control over EV. If the bureaucracy fails at the legible goal of being fast, he will simply fire it. But it is doing some filtering that he used to do, which is harder to police.