Yes, some funders are more interested in funding individuals and some are more interested in existing organizations.
If you apply here I’d also recommend applying to the Long Term Future Fund because they’re always looking for more good applications.
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 actually had 21 - extremely far off.
If you “extensively cross-checked the stories,” how did Ben get such a basic number so wrong? And why are you under the impression that you had talked to dozens of employees if Ben did not?
The fact that you spent 1000 hours on this and got such key details this wrong is surprising to me.
Ok, but why is this a big deal? Aside from showing egregiously bad fact checking, a large portion of Ben’s post was trying to make the case that there is a pattern of Nonlinear “chewing up and spitting out other bright-eyed young EAs who want to do good in the world.” It would significantly weaken your case if it were 2 out of 21 team members [1]were unhappy instead of 2 out of 7.
Not only that, but to my knowledge, Ben did not talk to a single employee or intern since Alice and Chloe to see if these patterns were, in fact, patterns.
This seems like poor truth-seeking to me.
edit: changed “employees” to “team members”