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Decision-Making Under Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship (with Miles Lasater)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

Startups and Non-Profits Have Different Kinds of Misaligned Incentives

With a startup, the messed up incentive is that sometimes you can make money by harming people. With a nonprofit, they're often going to donors and saying, hey, give us some money so we can go help these other people. But that actually breaks the feedback loop between adding value to people and getting money because they're different people. And it's very important to think about what they're each good at.

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