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Rob Wiblin

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80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

I guess, yeah, to reach all these people, you, I suppose, need a team in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands, I guess.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

No, I guess probably tens of thousands seems maybe right if you're going to cover all of India.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

How difficult is hiring as a scaling challenge?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Okay, so I suppose the thing that you need the most of is people to be calling up the villagers, finding the ambassadors, calling them and asking them, and I guess also people collecting numbers and then sending SMSs.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

And that's something that I guess that can be a reasonably standardized role where potentially it's not so hard to find people who are able to do that.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

I guess to get a lot bigger and cover as many states in India as possible.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

I suppose in each one, you want to go in and try to coordinate with the Department of Health or coordinate with hospitals to get all of the numbers of all of the parents of the newborns, because that'd be just so much more effective than trying to, I guess, talk doctor by doctor.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Are you likely to have any issues getting coordination or collaboration from them?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Or are they just very happy for someone to take these numbers and run with it?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Okay, different topic.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Did you consider early on potentially moving to India permanently and just running the entire organization and all of the stuff from India?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Is there actually, is there a benefit to having you in London?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Because I guess for fundraising, it might be better or there's other people you want to coordinate with where it's perhaps easier to do it in Europe.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

But you've put down some roots in London, so you can't just uproot them all.