Charities
topic on 7 shows · 9 statements across 8 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
the Knowledge Project 
Masters of Scale 
My First Million 
the Neon Show 
All-In 
David Senra
9 statements about Charities, every show
Parr: Giving Direct Cash Outperforms Most Bureaucratic Charity Programs
“Turns out that just giving poor people money is probably better than, like, a huge percentage of charities where they're like, you know, in order to, like, Help young single moms who are poor. I'm going to help you get a job. I'm going to help you. Like you go…”
Leone: 70% of Sequoia Capital comes from nonprofits and charities
“70% of our capital comes from nonprofits, charities, so I never thought of it as a game.”
Calacanis says most charities are a giant scam, prefers tipping workers
“And the reason I do it is I don't like giving money to charity. I feel like these charities are all a giant scam, and I like to give it to service people.”
Walling: Founders should not expect charity partnerships to drive paying customers
“Anything, any marketing or any value you get out of it to me is, I think, is a bonus. But I wouldn't have high hopes for something like this. Of like, oh, I'm going to sell a bunch of pieces of software because I think you might be let down.”
Chopra: Philanthropy is driven by status rather than pure selflessness
“It's not all selfless. If it were selfless, we'll not see names on buildings. Charities would be anonymous. So, there is a large extent of status also being involved in the mix, but I think it's a good trade-off if others get balanced and you have a name on yo…”
Harrison: 70% of Americans believe charities waste donor money
“USA Today poll, found 42% of Americans just flat out said, distrustful of charities. 70% of Americans in a more recent poll said they believe charities waste their money.”
Harrison: Guilt-based charity marketing fails to build advocates
“Charities use shame and guilt to market their wares. They made people feel terrible about what they had, hoping that they would respond. You remember those Sally Struthers commercials from the eighties, and the kids, and slow motion looking sadly at the camera…”
MacAskill: Charities survive without impact because donors are disconnected from beneficiaries
“In the case of the for-profit world, there's a kind of natural evolutionary mechanism. The companies that aren't able to turn a profit will eventually die. You know, the bad companies will get kind of kicked, you know, will get killed effectively, but that doe…”
MacAskill: The top charities achieve up to 1000x more positive impact
“We have some charities that can do, you know, hundreds of thousands of times more good than others which is an amazing opportunity if you are trying to do the most good but at the same time is indicative of the fact that it's just very hard to tell between the…”