This lines up with our experience running our first Nonlinear Network round. We received ~500 applications, most of which did not apply to other EA funders like the LTFF. Full writeup coming soon.
If you'd like to help out, you can apply to be a funder for our next round in Oct/Nov.
Hi, thanks for saying you liked the idea, and also appreciate the chance to clear up some things here. As a reminder, we’re not making funding decisions. We’re just helping funders and applicants find each other.
Some updates on that thread you might not have seen: the EA Forum moderators investigated and banned two users for creating ~8 fake sockpuppet accounts. This has possibly led to information cascades about things “lots of people are saying.”
Another thing you might not be aware of: the Glassdoor CEO rating of 0% was actually not Emers...
I've been trying to stay out of this, but I'm honestly shocked at this claim you're making.
You say:
But this is, just, wildly false? You did not speak to dozens of other people working at Nonlinear.
And Ben himself contradicts you. In Ben's post, he says:
Ben thinks we’ve only had 7 total team members, but we've ac... (read more)
Sorry, saying "worked at" is definitely not the right term, sorry about that.
We talked to dozens of people who have either worked at Nonlinear, otherwise worked with people currently at Nonlinear, or have substantially engaged with Nonlinear in a professional capacity and so seem like they are in a good position to judge what happened. "Worked at" is definitely the wrong word. I should have said something like "have worked with people at Nonlinear".
I don't particularly want to litigate the employee thing in this random thread. My best guess is ... (read more)