Vaidehi Agarwalla

Product @ Momentum
7125 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)Berkeley, CA, USA
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I help lead Product at Momentum, and care about making funding for high impact causes more robust & diversified. I live in the Bay Area, advise Asia-based community builders and run Pineapple Operations. I previously worked in consulting, recruiting and marketing, with a BA in Sociology and focused on social movements. (A little on my journey to EA)

I'm always keen to hear feedback through any means. Here's an anonymous way to share: admonymous.co/vaidehiagarwalla

Unless otherwise stated, I always write in a personal capacity.

 

/'vɛðehi/ or VEH-the-hee

Some posts I've written and particuarly like: 

Advice I frequently give:

How others can help me

If you feel I can do something (anything) better, please let me know. I want to be warm, welcoming & supportive - and I know I can fail to live up to those standards sometimes. Have a low bar for reaching out - (anonymous form here). 

If you think you have different views to me (on anything!), reach out -I want to hear more from folks with different views to me. If you have deep domain expertise in a very specific area (especially non-EA) I'd love to learn about it!

Connect me to product designers, people with ops & recruiting backgrounds and potential PA/ops folks! 

How I can help others

I can give specific feedback on movement building & meta EA project plans and career advising. 

I can also give feedback on posts and grant applications. 

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Operations in EA FAQs
Events in EA: Learnings & Critiques
EA Career Advice on Management Consulting
Exploratory Careers Landscape Survey 2020
Local Career Advice Network
Towards A Sociological Model of EA Movement Building

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I think mhendric was asking whether an applicant's anonymity preferences affect their chance of getting funding

Oh thanks for the clarification, I didn't realize that! I'd expect there to be less wealth in LMIC countries though - I assume the vast majority of wealth (not sure what reasonable numbers are here) is held in HIC's and by HNWIs / corporations / governments in those countries. 

Also global GDP increased 43% between 2010 and 2022.

GDP per capita numbers are 2022 estimates, didn't make that clear earlier.  

Also, the middle east (probably main source of muslim wealth) has a total GDP of $5-7 T (acc to wikipedia), I'd be surprised if the rest of the world can make up the rest.

Calculating the rest of the world, geographically (2010 population numbers, 2022 GDP numbers):

This accounts for something like 87% of Mulisms in 2010. I believe this distribution is basically accurate in 2024 (or if anything, accounts for even more of the population because the main population growth comes from LMICs). 

Cumulatively I'd expect that these regions could (being fairly generous) give maybe ~$206B per year (accounting for population growth from 2010 to present) if everyone was giving 2.5% of income, but I'd expect the number to be much lower. 

Marisa was a wonderfully kind, thoughtful and supportive person. She was one of the first friends I made in EA many years ago, and I felt I'd found a kindred spirit in her - we exchanged many ideas and about sociology, ops, community building. She gave wonderfully helpful feedback and I always enjoyed learning about what she was up to (always something new!).

I'm so saddened and heartbroken by this news. She deserved so much more.

Strong +1 to all of the above - I've observed this a lot especially with ops roles.

+1 I think it's worth trying to push for a 10% pledge and see what kind of traction you get. Also curious if you've spoken to OFTW about their experience with the 1% pledge and churn rates etc.

How long do the effects of the vaccine last / how was this incorporated into your estimates?

My naive guess is that this should make vaccines more cost effective on the time scale of years (since you won't need to re-vaccinate people), but maybe it's already incorporated into the efficacy estimate?

I'd love to know more about what the people you've spoken to have said - e.g. what kinds of accountability or transparency are they looking for?

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