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Dan Wu: Orca Protocol. Making Sense of DAO Governance | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3 #58

Episode Summary

Dan runs Product at Orca Protocol. Orca Protocol makes governance accessible by creating tools around a DAO’s most basic primitive: people. Will and Dan met up at ETH Denver, and we catch up on Dan getting a photo with Andrew Yang, the evolution of DAO voting, how Orca protocol is helping drive meta-governance, the risks of token weighted voting, and Dan’s favorite articles.

Episode Notes

Dan runs Product at Orca Protocol. Orca Protocol makes governance accessible by creating tools around a DAO’s most basic primitive: people. Will and Dan met up at ETH Denver, and we catch up on Dan getting a photo with Andrew Yang, the evolution of DAO voting, how Orca protocol is helping drive meta-governance, the risks of token weighted voting, and Dan’s favorite articles.

Dan and Orca protocols links:

• Dan’s twitter: @itsdanwu
• Orca’s publications: https://orca.mirror.xyz
• Orca’s website: https://www.orcaprotocol.org
• Orca Protocol’s twitter: @OrcaProtocol

In this episode we discuss:

Before we get started, if you’re new to DAO’s, we like this article for explaining them:

• https://future.a16z.com/building-and-running-a-dao-why-governance-matters/
• Getting a photo with Andrew Yang at ETH Denver: https://twitter.com/itsdanwu/status/1495100959864745987
• The ReOrg podcast: https://www.reorgpod.com/
• How to become a PM at a web3 company: Join the discord and just start speaking, listening, and contributing
• John and Jules
• Similarities and differences b/w Web2 vs. Web3 PM
  • Where you speak to customers
  • Tech stack
• DAO characteristics
• How Orca protocol helps DAO’s
• The stage / type of Web3 DAOs Orca is best for
• Typical pods that Dan sees implemented
  • Meta-governance committees
  • Grants committee
• How voting typically works.
• Token-weighted voting governance attacks
  • https://twitter.com/justinsuntron
• The evolution of voting from single votes to delegates to meta-governance daos
• Fei protocol listing on index to get listed on AAVE
  • https://snapshot.org/#/index-coop.eth/proposal/QmZa8WsStWo84iz1wGCsPzuM1TJTAi4DvsP2yvhu7669CZ
• DAO set up basics and best practices
  • Working agreements
  • The Ready: https://theready.com/
  • The Ready’s podcast: https://www.bravenewwork.com/podcast
• Dan’s dream person to interview: Obama

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