{"podcast":{"title":"Devex Podcasts","slug":"devex-podcasts-65118","podcast_index_feed_id":65118,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:367368098/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://soundcloud.com/devex-intl","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-le8u21hugyYvGEas-yI8JJA-original.jpg","author":"Devex","episode_count":337,"summary":"We're the world’s leading independent news organi…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T00:17:04.801409+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/devex-podcasts-65118"},"episode":{"title":"Theory of Change: #1: How Alexander Berger weighs the world’s biggest problems","slug":"theory-of-change-1-how-alexander-berger-weighs-the-world-s-biggest-problems","published_at":"2026-06-02T16:56:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/devex-podcasts-65118/theory-of-change-1-how-alexander-berger-weighs-the-world-s-biggest-problems","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/devex-podcasts-65118","url":"https://soundcloud.com/devex-intl/how-alexander-berger-weighs-the-world-s-biggest-problems","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2332141802-devex-intl-how-alexander-berger-weighs-the-world-s-biggest-problems.mp3","summary":"Coefficient Giving, one of the world’s largest effective-giving funders, is about to go even bigger. On the heels of its biggest funding year ever in 2025 — in which it channeled over $1 billion to highest-impact causes — the organization formerly known as Open Philanthropy and funded by Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna is eyeing annual growth upward of 50% and bringing on more staff to get it done. The person behind that vision is Alexander Berger, Coefficient Giving’s cofounder and CEO. Berger is in charge of turning Facebook wealth — and, increasingly, funds from other donors — into as many lives saved and improved as possible. The organization is a major funder in global health and development, catastrophic risk, research and innovation, and even farm animal welfare. Last week, Coefficient Giving launched a new pooled fund to tackle Group A Streptococcus — an easily treated disease that is still responsible for nearly 700,000 deaths a year — a cause that reflects the organization’s framework for tackling problems that are important, neglected, and tractable. In a rare, in-depth interview with Devex Senior Reporter Michael Igoe, Berger sheds light on Coefficient Giving’s rapid growth plans, its strategy for choosing high-impact causes, the rise of artificial intelligence philanthropy, and his own approach to affecting change in an uncertain world. This is the first episode of Theory of Change, a new podcast series from Devex featuring candid interviews with leaders shaping the future of global development.","meta_description":"Coefficient Giving, one of the world’s largest effective-giving funders, is about to go even bigger. On the heels of its biggest funding year ever in 2025…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3988,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/devex-podcasts-65118/episodes/theory-of-change-1-how-alexander-berger-weighs-the-world-s-biggest-problems/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/devex-podcasts-65118/theory-of-change-1-how-alexander-berger-weighs-the-world-s-biggest-problems.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}