This is a really interesting model that has been tried a couple times in venture. Probably most notable is Upside (https://www.upsidevc.com). Curious to get your thoughts on them + why you decided to go the founder exchange approach as opposed to raising a fund?
If you want to do something about climate change, consider working at a company fighting some aspect of it, whether it be wind energy, carbon removal, electric vehicles or something else.
We started Dolphin (http://withdolphin.com/) to create an easy way for people to find impactful jobs tackling climate change. Hope it's helpful to anyone considering a career shift.
Dolphin helps you find high-impact, high-paying jobs/internships solving problems you care about. We recommend work at 6000+ vetted organizations tackling pressing issues such as: climate change, poverty reduction, education, healthcare, cities/urban mobility, space exploration, and protecting civil liberties.
We're looking for talented software engineering interns for Spring/Summer 2020. An ideal candidate will have experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular) and backend technology (Flask, node/express) for building robust APIs. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a plus.
This internship is a unique opportunity to gain extensive real-world software development experience and work directly with our CTO. You’ll be building out parts of the Dolphin web app, which will help others find high-impact jobs and internships.
This role is great for self-starters who want to help fight the major issues facing society today and excel in fast-paced environments. We believe that the highest-leverage thing to do right now is to connect talented people to roles tackling major problems they care about. Hopefully you will play a pivotal part in helping us achieve this mission.
Please email me at [email protected] if you're interested in applying/learning more.
Dolphin helps you find high-impact, high-paying jobs/internships solving problems you care about. We recommend work at 6000+ vetted organizations tackling pressing issues such as: climate change, poverty reduction, education, healthcare, cities/urban mobility, space exploration, and protecting civil liberties.
We're looking for talented software engineering interns for Spring/Summer 2020. An ideal candidate will have experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular) and backend technology (Flask, node/express) for building robust APIs. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a plus.
This internship is a unique opportunity to gain extensive real-world software development experience and work directly with our CTO. You’ll be building out parts of the Dolphin web app, which will help others find high-impact jobs and internships.
This role is great for self-starters who want to help fight the major issues facing society today and excel in fast-paced environments. We believe that the highest-leverage thing to do right now is to connect talented people to roles tackling major problems they care about. Hopefully you will play a pivotal part in helping us achieve this mission.
Please email me at [email protected] if you're interested in applying/learning more.
Been working on a project to help people find high-impact jobs tackling problems they care about (ie. climate change, healthcare, etc), and we'll have filters for part-time and remote when we launch next month: https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.
The notion that meaningful work is inversely correlated with pay is one of the most detrimental myths that prevent smart people from even starting to look for high-impact companies and roles. It's a convenient but weak excuse.
There's thousands of other companies we've vetted for Dolphin, a jobs app to find high-impact, high-paying work tackling everything from climate change to healthcare reform. We're still building out the MVP but feel free to stay updated at https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.
IMO the highest leverage thing to do right now to fix the environment is connecting the most talented people with careers at organizations directly tackling parts of the environmental crisis. Individual efforts can help, but all major advancements in human history have come through a coordinated group of people advancing a common cause. In our day and age, these are the corporations and nonprofits.
Similarly, the effectiveness of volunteering is also limited because of how hard it is to do work for free for a long period of time. The moment something becomes hard is the moment an effort starts getting valuable, and also the moment when volunteers start dropping.
Given all this, I'm currently working on Dolphin (https://www.splashwithdolphin.com/), which connects people with careers at high-impact companies tackling problems they care about. Climate change is #1 on the list of pressing issues. Happy to chat more about this at [email protected].
We're building a jobs board for this right now at https://www.splashwithdolphin.com. About to release a beta soon, sign up to stay updated if you're interested :)