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Rob Wiblin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
552 total appearances

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

Yeah, I'm guessing you might have some family in India or perhaps have spent some time in India before you started this organization?

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

All right, yeah.

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

Was that a substantial advantage as a co-founder?

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

Do you think maybe Fiona would have found it more difficult without someone who was more familiar with operating in India?

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

Yeah, I think both having the desire to mull things over and the desire to make a decision and move on is very useful to have both of those tendencies competing, I guess, when you're trying to manage something.

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

I've been told that it can be useful having me in a meeting because I always want to end meetings and just make decisions.

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

Obviously, that would be terrible if it was the only way that you're doing things.

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

But it's like you want to have a flavor of different dispositions towards that kind of thing.

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

Has anyone been kind of annoyed by what you're doing and made your life difficult over the last couple of years?

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

I was trying to think who might be annoyed.

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

I suppose anti-vaxxers perhaps, but maybe they're operating more in other countries.

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

What about, has anyone been annoyed that you're kind of spamming them with these messages?

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

Or perhaps the immunization ambassadors annoyed someone by hassling them too much?

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

Or I guess it just hasn't been an issue so far.

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

Okay, that's great.

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

I guess we've talked about the possibility of this being done by government or possibly even absorbed by government at some point in the future.

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

What about kind of going the opposite way?

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

I was imagining an alternative model for trying to get vaccines to everyone might be that the Indian government starts paying a bounty effectively for anyone who's able to immunise a child who otherwise would have gone unimmunised.

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

And so you could imagine, I guess, semi trying to privatize this by just making it the case that any company in India could potentially try to make a profit by using their marketing ability or their logistics ability to immunize as many people as possible and then go to the government and get paid for it.