Rob Wiblin

Particularly running any given program area doesn't have a big team to worry about and can just like help that person develop context, figure out their strategy.

And then it could be an opportunity for me to like see if I can get the feeling of like sort of plugging in again that I had been missing for a while.

I think it went really well.

So our director of GCRs is Emily Olson, who's also the president of Open Philanthropy.

And she's like, and I've been spending like most of the last year, most of this year, 2025, just helping her in various ways, trying to understand like,

Well, what have we funded?

What's come of that?

You know, what's the AI worldview?

What do we think is going to happen with AI?

How is that informing our strategy?

Like, what are the strategies of the various sub-teams?

And I, like, work really, really well with her.

And it's like, I actually had been, like, lonely at OpenPhil almost the entire time I'd been at OpenPhil, even though it got worse in 2023.

Because, like, while Holden was, like, really great at, like,

giving me a lot of bandwidth that I'm really grateful for and talking about object level stuff with me.

Holden never ran a ship where he was like, I'm doing this bigger project.

Can you help me with this piece of it?

And here's how it fits in.

Holden was always more like a research PI where I was doing my own research project and he would talk to me about it a bunch and he was interested in the results.

But it was not like,