Hey all, I was an early eng at Votizen, now coming up to speed w/ Causes. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
Also curious how "multiple groups who conflict" will be handled. On Votizen, there was already D vs. R (with a lot more D...), but my experience with causes is that it was mainly pro-things, where no one was really anti that thing, just maybe "don't feel it's the most important thing to do".
Do you guys have plans or expect this company to ever monetize?
I've heard this confusion consistently from people, so I get where you're coming from. It is possible to have a for-profit business whose customer is the non-profit, or the campaign, or the NGO.
I always liked the term not-just-for-profit.
Congrats on the merge, guys!
It's a very fine line to walk in finding the intersection of public good through individual empowerment and corporate sustainability through partnerships with CSRs and non-profits. And then there's the challenge of doing this in a way that doesn't breach user trust and privacy in data.
No one doubts our heart's been in the right place but what's exciting now is proving out that our business acumen's in the right place too.
I can tell you that I will work inside Causes to make it a thing we do.
EDIT: to be clear, I don't mean informed gun policy, I mean informed policy in general. Gun policy is just a recent example.
Dude, no. "An act of gun violence" is not "20 elementary school children killed in their elementary school." There is not 1 Sandy Hook every day. It is the Olympics of moral equivocation to boil what happened there to "an act of gun violence." Why would you be frustrated that people got more worked up over 20 little kids being murdered in their classrooms than other "acts of gun violence"?
I do not hold a child's life higher than an adult's. I realize that's a weird thing to lots of people. Maybe that's weird to you?
Anyway, I do agree that a single actor causing all that harm is a different thing, yes. We should fix that. I just hate that we ignore ongoing disasters because it doesn't make a good news story.
EDIT: I didn't downvote Matt and don't think people should. Don't downvote things you disagree with. His is a valid response and this is a place for discussion (right)?