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Bored Elon chats about his decade+ long experience building and growing pseudonymous online personalities, how he entered the crypto world, what he's working on and his love for Legos. We touch interesting aspects of brand building as a pseudonymous personality and what's inspired him to create and maintain Bored Elon online.

Rei Chiang, CTO and co-founder of DeFi unicorn Gauntlet, breaks down risk management in the context of DeFi markets and how Gauntlet aims to help organizations, companies and individuals in the industry better assess risk. We also touch upon recent market events with regards to the fall of FTX and how risk management may have been insufficiently prioritized across the board.

Mark Beylin, co-founder of Myco, dives deep into what it means for communities to launch social tokens, how the life of a token and its associated history can impact its creators, and why tokens should be able to evolve over time. 

I chat with Matt Dobel, who runs Business Development at Gauntlet, and we dive into what it means for a business to operate in a B2DAO way, as opposed to the more familiar B2B route. We dig into how this plays out in terms of governance, education and the pros/cons of this business model in the industry.

We discuss the importance of community first building and what it means for a DAO to have a north star and center of gravity with Rafa the Builder, community architect and DAO extraordinaire at Mirror. Check out my article about Minimum Viable DAOs at anisha.mirror.xyz 🪞

I chat with Jess Sloss, cofounder of Seed Club — one of the hottest Social DAOs in existence today. Jess and I dive into the origin story of Seed Club, how one can join, participate, and stand out in a DAO. Want to make your mark in a large community? Problem solve before anyone else, consistently, and nobody will be able to ignore you.

On Pilled episode 6, we chat with Will Papper from SyndicateDAO about investment DAOs (more on this in the episode 5 with Kinjal Shah) and the launch of SyndicateDAOs new platform which allows you to spin up investment clubs in a matter of minutes. We discuss the types of support issues often faced by users and what this means for where we’re at as a web3 community in terms of effective on-ramps. Will drops a few hot takes if you stick with us til the end! You can check out SyndicateDAO here: www.syndicate.io and my writing about DAOs here: www.anisha.mirror.xyz :)

Kinjal from Blockchain Capital joins us today to discuss investment DAOs, her experience with one such DAO, Komorebi Fund, and what we think the future of the early stage crypto investing landscape may look like.

In our Part II with Chase Chapman, we discuss moderation and discourse in DAOs today, current DAO tools, and what onboarding and offboarding looks like. We also chat about compensation and the importance of transparency in the ecosystem. If you missed Part I with Chase or want to learn the basics of what a DAO is with Diana Chen, I recommend checking out prior episodes. (audio bookmarks to be updated shortly) 🤝

In Part I, we dive deep into the what DAO structures look like today and explore the differences between a flat and hierarchical structure with our DAO queen, Chase Chapman. We discuss how we see DAOs and their systems potentially changing for the future. Tune in for Part II! (audio bookmarks to be updated shortly)