(I’ve got three different comments wearing three different hats; I’ll make them all at the top level.)
Comment Hat #3: Involved in an adjacent project to one sub-project mentioned
Figure out how to deploy money at scale to make things better
If I’m being honest, I’m less interested in Lightcone doing this than the other things you’ve listed. I have a natural bias here, though, as a board member of Manifund, another org in the ecosystem that is interested in (1) running experiments in fund-allocation processes and (2) building bespoke financial infrastructure for unique needs in the community.
I suspect that if we talked for long enough about it, I’d end up believing that:
diversification of service providers for things like fiscal sponsorship is good for the ecosystem
insofar as Oliver and Austin have different visions for the finding ecosystem, we’re better off having both of them execute on them.
where they have overlapping visions, we’re probably better off with some specialization of offerings.
I’m not sure whether [capabilities lab liquidity] suggests that we just need a large number of thoughtful deployment-helping orgs online (or in any case more than two) or if it suggests focusing on building one dedicated infra stack.
I’m still very excited about the other things Lightcone is up to, and so on the margin that makes me more prefer that the marginal funding-related project be housed at Manifund.
I still don’t know how biased I am by being closer to one of these orgs than the other.
I’d definitely be interested in hearing about Oliver’s thoughts along these lines (here, or in meeting with me / Austin / Manifund’s board, or wherever).
(I’ve got three different comments wearing three different hats; I’ll make them all at the top level.)
Comment Hat #3: Involved in an adjacent project to one sub-project mentioned
If I’m being honest, I’m less interested in Lightcone doing this than the other things you’ve listed. I have a natural bias here, though, as a board member of Manifund, another org in the ecosystem that is interested in (1) running experiments in fund-allocation processes and (2) building bespoke financial infrastructure for unique needs in the community.
I suspect that if we talked for long enough about it, I’d end up believing that:
diversification of service providers for things like fiscal sponsorship is good for the ecosystem
insofar as Oliver and Austin have different visions for the finding ecosystem, we’re better off having both of them execute on them.
where they have overlapping visions, we’re probably better off with some specialization of offerings.
I’m not sure whether [capabilities lab liquidity] suggests that we just need a large number of thoughtful deployment-helping orgs online (or in any case more than two) or if it suggests focusing on building one dedicated infra stack.
I’m still very excited about the other things Lightcone is up to, and so on the margin that makes me more prefer that the marginal funding-related project be housed at Manifund.
I still don’t know how biased I am by being closer to one of these orgs than the other.
I’d definitely be interested in hearing about Oliver’s thoughts along these lines (here, or in meeting with me / Austin / Manifund’s board, or wherever).