Building At The Edges

This week, we spoke with Lg Doucet of The First Mint. The First Mint is a web3 media brand and leading content source for new & established NFT projects, with a focus on Sports & Entertainment. LG and I met during Seed Club's second accerlator, right when his community and podcast were exploding in popularity. We spoke about the rollercoaster LG has been on with the popularity of NBA top shot, and as the hype happened, how he has stayed true to his community and purpose. Lots to learn from someone who has been at this for over a year!

On our final episode of the DAO contributor series, we speak with Nnnnicolas. We learn about his experience entering the DAO landscape the many DAOs he has contributed to, such as FWB, Party DAO, Shark DAO, and, most impactfully, JuiceBox. We learn about what payroll looks like in a DAO like JuiceBox. Navigating leaving a DAO and lessons learned, And what Nnnnicolas is up to today.

Today we are joined by Pandy Marino. Pandy is the steward of the community team at Seed Club. And has been a high-impact DAO contributor at SC. Today we talk about how she ended up at SC. Her search for clarity. The frustration drove her away from web2 communities and down the web3 rabbit hole.

This week, I spoke with one of my favorite humans in web3, the one and only Samsonite: multihyphenate artist, producer and Seed Club OG. Samsonite's path through Seed Club, as an Accelerator alumnus, collaborator, and now producing the Club Pod, is a lesson in joining a DAO and finding a community that speaks to you. We discuss what work looks like in web3, and nontraditional pathways to DAO contribution.

Today we are joined by Mark Redito, a DAO contributor at Songcamp. In this episode, we explore what Mark was up to before getting into web3. This conversation speaks to the social and human aspects of DAOs. Building trust in a community, resolving conflicts in DAOs vs. traditional organizations. And Mark leaves us with some resources that have helped him shape his thinking.

Today Nicole speaks with Global Coin Research founder Joyce Yang. GCR is a research and investment DAO focused on Web3. Joyce and Nicole discussed the early days of GCR, including her experience going through Seed Club's SC02 cohort, and the learnings on teams and tooling she's gained over the last year since launching the GCR token and building her project into a fully functional DAO.

Today we continue with our DAO contributor series with prolific DAO Contributor Chase Chapman. Chase is a contributor to Index Coop, Orca Protocol, and Rabbit Hole. Chase is also the host of the Otherside podcast. In this episode, we go deep, challenging the current narratives of DAOs. Explored what it looks like to enter and join a DAO as a contributor and how we might make that process better. And Chase spends some time talking about how cities and citizens might be the best way to think about DAOs and token holders, and we're going to unpack what that means

Welcome to the first episode of the DAO contributor series, where we sit down with the early full-time contributors in the web3 ecosystem to shine a light on some of the pain points and day to day operations of what it is like actively building on the front lines in the future of work on the internet. In this episode, we sit down with Patti Hauseman, an operations contributor at FWB. We learn about Patti's journey entering the web3 space and how she worked her way through to the full-time operations role at FWB. We go deep into the onboarding process at FWB and how those pathways have evolved. And FWB's experience building web3 healthcare options for their contributors

Today we hear from HEAT, a community creating a new Marketplace for Dancers and movement online, using motion capture and metaversal interoperability. I spoke with co-founder Brady on his initial spark for HEAT, the process of selecting core partners, his go-to-community learnings, and how he finds a balance between art-making, building, and marketing.

Today's guest is Cherie Hu, Seed Club alumni and founder of Water & Music, a membership-funded newsletter, research hub, and community forum focused on the intersection between music and tech. We discussed Cherie's process of building the foundation of Water & Music before making the transition into a DAO, the tools used to create deep, authentic connections between members, and how codes of conduct have emerged and adapted as the community has grown.

In a special episode, the tables turn, and Thattallguy AKA Jess Sloss is interviewed by Seed Club collaborator and contributor Cryptohun3y. We learn about the Seed Club origin story dig into the learning while doing model that is a core value at Seed Club. The $CLUB token drop and the lessons we learned, and so much more!

For this episode of Builder's Journey, our guest is Malcolm Levy, cofounder of Refraction, a community of diverse artists and culture builders creating an IRL and digital festival and spaces worldwide. Malcolm and Nicole got into the values and culture being created at Refraction and how it shows up in their Metaverse and IRL events, the formation of the initial core team, and how they go about selecting the tech tools at work in Refraction DAO.

Our guest on this episode of Builder's Journey is Will Rowe, CEO of Protein, and one of the leads of Protein DAO, a community where people and ideas grow. We spent time discussing Protein's definition of good growth, and how the values and principles around this were designed and continue to evolve with the community. Will also shared some of the educational tools and resources built by Protein, and how these connect to their values.

SC04 has kicked off, and Jess is joined by Nicole, Jeff, and Josh, a panel of folks deeply involved in this new cohort's creation and selection. We get into some of the differences from previous cohorts and the approach for SC04. We talk about the steps and process of narrowing down 200+ applications to 21. We learn about what SC04 participants should expect, some of Nicole's hopes and dreams for SC04, and how you can follow along and participate as a community member.

In this episode of Builder's Journey, Nicole sits down with Zach Fleishman and Jon Hillis, co founders of Cabin DAO, a decentralized city built by creators, for creators. Jon, Zach and I spent time discussing the real world / digital world collisions they build at their Creator Cabins, how their roadmap has evolved based on initial values and principles, and the ways in which their information architecture creates smooth and effective onboarding experiences.

Today we are joined by Austin Robey, Seed Club Alumni, and collaborator, creator of Ampled and DinnerDAO. We dive into Austin's most recent article on what cooperatives and DAOs can learn from each other. We talk about how tokens can be a tool to bootstrap a network effect and create actual collective ownership. We also get into Austin's take on how ownership should be a core value in a society where we ask ourselves, "Who owns this product?"

Today we sit down with Ian, Co-founder of Syndicate protocol at Syndicate DAO and an early supporter at Seed Club. In this episode, we learn about the new tool they recently rolled out called investment clubs. We also get into the weeds about web3 social and the more significant implications.

Today we sit down with AJ Washington, Founder of Phlote, a music venture DAO working with musicians and other artists to succeed in web3, and with fans to curate and share in the value they create. AJ and I explored his path to Phlote, and how he's brought his past experiences and learnings in very traditional worlds into the very non-traditional DAO space, including his thoughts on leadership and accountability. We also discussed the importance of curation in this increasingly abundant creative world, and how he is working to disrupt legacy power structures in the music industry.

Matthew Chaim, singer, songwriter, and conspirer behind web3 music communities, Songcamp, is today's guest. We discussed his continued developments with Songcamp, as well as the many projects that have spun out, and the learnings from his time as a builder, including making space for creativity and curiosity, the process of world building (including the story of Elektra) leading with a core team in web3 and how he brings improvisation into his leadership style.

Alex Zhang is our guest today. The mayor of FWB, otherwise known as the aspiring Jane Jacobs of DAOs. We talked about Season 5, the upcoming season for FWB, in this episode. New tools they are building. We dive into reputation with this new NFT ID badge rolling out for the community. And lessons learned from the recent treasury diversification round they ran.

In this episode of Builders Journey, Nicole d'Avis speaks to Alana Podrx leader of EVE wealth. A global community of women who share portfolios, co-invest and support each other in self-guided wealth management through peer-to-peer learning. Alana was part of Seed Clubs' third accelerator with the project EVE wealth. In our conversation, we discuss the journey of first deciding to introduce web3 concepts to the EVE wealth community, concrete ways of scaling and decentralizing content creation and community work, and her thought process through the evolution of launching a token.

We sit down with Jeff Kauffman, leader of JUMP, a community of marketing and advertising professionals from top agencies, brands, and startups that are passionate about web3. Nicole and Jeff met and came through the Seed Club second accelerator together and have been in this wild web3 space for almost a year. In our conversation, we explore how he grew his community from web2 to web3, how he onboards members through generosity and empowerment, and how he is learning and building through the real technical challenges of being a web3 pioneer.

Today we have Jarrod Dicker on the Seed Club Podcast. Jarrod is one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of web3 and media. Having worked at the Huffington Post and the Washington Post, etc. In this conversation, we talk about the evolution of media, lessons learned from early social media, and web2. Then we ask Jarrod to look around the corner a little bit and see what the opportunity is for media brands in the web3 world.

Today we sit down with Jack Spallone. Jack is an OG in the music and Web3 space. He has a ton of experience working at the edges with fun drops like $TAPE with RAC. Jack looks at the emerging space in music and web3 at a level that very people do. In this episode, we talk about music copyright and how that relates to web3 music, and much more!

Today we are joined by Seed Club alumni Flex Chapman and Commodore of Krause House, a DAO aiming to buy an NBA sports team. We talk about their backgrounds from the startup world and their journey into discovering DAOs. We talk about the way they look at onboarding people into their community. Their most recent and successful crowdfund on Mirror. Some of the edge cases when using Mirror. And why did they join the Seed Club Accelerator? What did they get out of it?

Today we're joined by Nicole d'Avis, the lead educator who runs the accelerator program at Seed Club. We chat about what's been exciting at Seed Club over the last six months, and we dive deep into the accelerator program. Nicole helps us answer what the accelerator is and what it has to offer. We also learn about Nicole's journey into crypto and web3.

Today we're joined by David Spinks. David is a lifelong practitioner of community building. In this episode, we start by talking about consumer empowerment and how the role of community has evolved as consumers have grown in power. Then we dive into the specifics of onboarding people, getting more people into communities, creating a sense of belonging, and what roles and infrastructure are required to be able to deliver on that long term.

Two-part conversation! Today in part one, we are joined with Julian Weisser and Will Papper, who are two contributors apart of a group trying to buy the US constitution as we speak. We look into the process of setting an organization like this up. Part-two we bring on Sirsu, a member at Seed Club and a co-founder of multiple interesting projects like Cryptocookout and BlvkHvnd to discuss the well-warranted criticism around the political nature of the document, the potential racist nature of the document, and some other interesting critiques.

Today we are joined by our dear friend Cooper Turley. Cooper is a co-founder at FWB, a venture partner at Variant Fund, and has his fingers in or around many of the leading DAO & social tokens you probably all heard of. This conversation is interesting. We talk about his initial inspiration for jumping into the social token space and contrast that to where things are today. We talk about the DAO landscape. We talk about the underbelly of token compensation and how Web3 communities and projects might want to develop and structure compensation in their DAOs

Today we sit down with Jiho, Axie Infinity Co-founder and community lead. We dive into the story of both Jiho and Axie Infinity. What's it's like to manage one of the most considerable Discord servers in the world. We get into community design, how to grow, manage, incentivize and reward and give ownership to people creating value in the Axie community.

Today's guest is Ohhshiny, the Metaverse community manager. We dive into the community and value found in Bored Ape Yacht Club. We talk about new brand models in Web3 that have a focus on niches and nuance. And about building reputation and the future social reputation can play in someone's career and the overall importance in the economy moving forward.

Today we speak with Will Papper. Co-founder at Syndicate protocol and creator of Adventure Gold. ($AGLD) In this conversation, we talk about Loot and all the fun things that have emerged around it. We talk about why Loot is interesting we get into the story and history of $AGLD. A fascinating part of our conversation is when Will gets into scarcity vs. abundance mindsets related to token design.

Packy McCormick is our guest today. The author of the not-boring newsletter and investing from the not-boring fund. Packy is an excellent conversationalist. This conversation allowed us to get into all sorts of things. We talk about his journey into starting the not-boring newsletter at the beginning of the pandemic. We get into fun stuff like the importance of vibes when beginning a project. We spend some time talking about the most impactful popular issues he has written, such as "the great online game," and we end our conversation talking about liquid superteams and the future of work.

In this episode, we talk with Li Jin, the founder of Atelier Ventures. Former A16z investor, passion economy definer. We talk about the Creator Economy and her optimism for crypto being a tool to help the creator economy evolve. We discuss the meaning of ownership, how to distribute ownership, and create incentive alignment. And we also talk about Li Jins take on investing.

First Club episode! We talk with Aaron Wright, the co-founder of OpenLaw, the team behind the LAO, Flamingo DAO, Neptune DAO, and more. We talk about all things DAOs, and the value of having a sense-making organism. We talk about his excitement for the Metaverse being the next big play in crypto, and of course, we dive into Social Tokens.