doc status: WIP, ~80% done

Agenda

Manifest
- Overall, very successful in terms of attendee feedback, press, connections built. And profitable!
  - 300 ⇒ 570 attendees this year, NPS of 64, lots of love
  - $80k in profit (before salaries) on $340k of revenue; see sheet
- 50/20/20/10 split of profits among Manifold/Rachel/Saul/Manifund
AI Safety Regranting
- Running fairly smoothly at the moment
General crowdfunding
- Keeps us occupied; a few interesting projects come up
Discussing a collab with EA Funds
- Could be a large source of work & revenue; unsure of net impact
- Meeting notes: Caleb <> Austin on Manifund processing EA Funds

Vishal: Things like Manifest — is there something about local/on-the-ground community stuff vs number-go-off on dashboard appeals
- R: Love running events, if Rachel could run Manifest all the time, it would be cool
- A: Eh, mix between local and numbers
V: What’s Manifund in 5 years time?
- R: Community aspect of Manifund isn’t very salient. Would like EA funding ecosystem to be less bad; easier to start things;
- A: Maybe moving lots of money
Ross: Who else thinks of philanthropic giving as TAM?
- every.org?
  - [r] Every.org serves small amounts; we can run large programs, work with ACX, in addition

Homework for Manifund
- Pay out and wind down Manifold for Charity program
- File 2023 taxes
- Sort out state incorporation (reinstate TX, or move from TX to CA)
- Undergo audit?
- Resolve legal issues
Figure out what next. Some potential projects:
- Manifest AGI
- “celeb regranting as a service” aka Substack for Regranting
- SF Coworking Space
- Or scale out existing projects

Inputs into hiring:
- How easy is it to raise more funding?
- Do we want to hire?
- In 3 years, how big do we want the org to be?
Vishal: Raised a preseed, have some social capital under our belt
- With that community capital, we have an opportunity to raise a seed
- At this moment: Want to insert some more ambition. Multi-T outcome, AI soon
- Party round for $500k-1m?
- A bunch of things are happening:
  - OAI secondary offerings
  - A lot of people bought NVIDIA
  - Crypto bull run
- So lots of liquidity, people are looking to deploy towards things that can help
  - If we can put a deck together with a vision to clarify our thinking, and raise an ambitious seed ($500k-$2m), can hire a team of 2-4 people and get more momentum