As we see the details of Anthropic’s IPO for the first time, we are launching a free advisor-matching tool to help you find an evidence-first advisor. Anthropic published its S-1 yesterday, October 26th, giving the first public view of its IPO filing. If it lists in mid-November, Anthropic staff could...
Two philanthropic advisers on how sudden wealth affects you, and the three things to set up now. Right now, an unusually large number of people in tech are on the edge of an extreme wealth event. Through a tender offer, IPO, acquisition, or vesting equity, they will go from a...
Many organisations have a dream for scaling. Fewer have a plan. I helped hundreds of unemployed people with their job search as COO of School of Hard Knocks. We had a training module called "the difference between a dream and a plan". A dream is saying you want to run...
Linkpost for my Substack piece, adapted a reasonable amount for EA specifically. Almost all EA projects would benefit from better monitoring, but AI governance most of all, in my experience. Most donors in EA never find out whether their grants worked. They model the impact before the money goes out,...
Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Donors are holding AI wealth at enormous risk. Their giving is often extremely risk-averse. “What is the most common mistake donors make?” This is one of the questions I get asked most as a donation adviser. Often, I say that it’s risk tolerance....
Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Disagreement very welcome. What happened Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on 23rd July. This increases a previous commitment of $175m for 2026. cG say this could be a one-off surge, but it has implications for other donors either...
Why the AI windfall should build new grantmakers, not just bigger ones Originally published at my Funding Anthropalypse Substack. Imagine you could live in one of two worlds in 2027. In the first, Coefficient Giving is twice as big. In the second, there are two Coefficient Givings of the same...