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Varsha Venugopal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

It does help to keep you on track.

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

Exactly.

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

It's just that when you think about low-income parents and carers, there is a whole host of additional ways your life is complicated and overwhelming that just makes it harder to remember to go get those vaccines.

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

We had a business development role that I think just closed this week.

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

The one role that's still open until Monday is head of technology.

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

In the future, we plan to have some monitoring and evaluation roles open up.

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

I would say broadly, because we are a startup and move fairly quickly, if you're interested in this line of work, please take a look at our website and sign up for our newsletter.

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

I am quite keen to move as much of our team to India as possible, given there is a surplus of talent in there.

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

Even within this space of evidence-based, cost-effective decision-making and nonprofit sector,

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

there are fairly well-developed organizations there and potential staff members.

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

So I think the business development person, for instance, may be based anywhere.

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

But for most of our operational team moving forward, the likelihood is they'd be based in India.

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

I think based on CE's advice and even otherwise, we realized operations was one of our crucial roles.

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

And I know that's something EA and CEA have been promoting as well.

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

So I think that's something we have mostly figured out, I'd like to think.

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

So we have a head of operations now.

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

At the moment, we do think there are some exponential leaps we could have with a head of tech, which is why we are going for this role.

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

I can tell you more about that.

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

Yeah, yeah, go for it.

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

So the main aims of this role is to identify priority opportunities and bottlenecks, to design solutions both by talking to us team members, but also possibly talking to the end users that we're trying to reach.