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Oct 2023
1h 11m

Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWell

RUSS ROBERTS
About this episode
When then-hedge fund manager Elie Hassenfeld began his philanthropic journey in 2006, he knew that he wanted to get the most charitable bang for his buck. He quickly realized, however, that detailed data on charitable impact simply didn't exist. So he and Holden Karnovsky founded GiveWell, an organization inspired by effective altruism that identifies the ch ... Show More
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