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Philanthropically Funding the Foundation of Fields with Adam Falk [Idea Machines #45]

Idea Machines

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The Time Scale for Rethinking a Programme

Rihtlina: How do you think about time scales on things, right? Because it's like, obviously, like, science can take 25 years. And i would say the time scale we think on for programms is decades. We at the slon foundation tend to think that it takes five years, at a minimum, to have impact into any new field that you go into. So in our ongoing programmes, about every five years we'll take a step back and do review of whether we're having an impact on the programme.

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