I'm late to this, but still wanted to voice that I am against such a grant, as I see many points of failure despite excellent intentions behind it.
The Olympus team has no problem finding and attracting excellent talent. Added to this, in the current market there are many talents available and looking for work.
I understand part of the project is to actually educate builders to build with OHM as a foundation, but why should this be led by the academy? For that much money, I'm pretty sure it's possible to build an OHM centric online course, accessible by all and hosted by the DAO. This would probably be a better value add for the DAO and could be executed by Artemis.
The courses are already 2,500 USD per cohort/person. If Artemis Academy is such a supporter of Olympus, I feel that should be enough to cover the costs of running the course and doesn't need extra funding.
I have a hard time seeing how the grant will be spent apart from sent to potential users with no guarantee of returns to the DAO.
If the goal is to get builders to build on OHM, I feel this joins very much the Grants program, and as such should be part of it in a bid to promote Grants and educate builders on the qualities of OHM.
Also, why should the DAO pay for talent it has helped nurture by providing funds for the educational platform? As i understand it, it will be the DAO's responsibility to coach the Artemis graduates and it would still have to pay a 15k fee on top to get talent it has participated in educating?
Will the DAO get a share of the revenue earned by Artemis through placing students having gone through the admission portal and the grants in other projects?
The way this proposal is formulated feels like a one sided win, with the DAO taking most of the burden and Artemis reaping most of the financial benefits.
Sorry if the thoughts are a bit disjointed, still feeling the aftermath of NFTNYC 😅