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Peter Yang: OdysseyDAO. Building community to create Web3 education | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #47
Episode Summary
Peter Yang is the founder of OdysseyDAO. A learning DAO for creating high-quality, 100% free Web3 education. They are a 4,000 member community of product managers, designers, engineers, and other builders passionate about Web3. Creating quality "explain like I'm five" Web3 learning material. Peter is also the author of the best-selling book, Principles of Product Management. And runs a newsletter, Creator Economy, where 10,000+ subscribers receive essays that Peter writes about building products in the creator economy. We discuss how Peter built the OdysseyDAO community, how the OdysseyDAO is run, and his vision for OdysseyDAO.
Episode Notes
Peter Yang is founder of OdysseyDAO. A learning DAO for creating high-quality, 100% free Web3 education. They are a 4,000 member community of product managers, designers, engineers, and other builders passionate about Web3. Creating quality "explain like I'm five" Web3 learning material. Peter is also the author of the best-selling book, Principles of Product Management. And runs a newsletter, Creator Economy, where 10,000+ subscribers receive essays that Peter writes about building products in the creator economy. We discuss how Peter built the OdysseyDAO community, how the OdysseyDAO is run, and his vision for OdysseyDAO.
Learn more about Peter and OdysseyDAO:
In this episode we discuss:
- What is a OdysseyDAO and what it provides: Quality, concise guides for learning Web3 together.
- OdysseyDAO’s mission: Onboard 1 million people to web3
- What got Peter started with OdysseyDAO.
- How Peter went from having a popular newsletter to launching a community
- How Peter realized that it’s not the number of members in the community, but the key is the number of core contributors
- How it all started with a tweet.
- Signals
- Learning DAO to explain to people how to onboard to web3
- Curious beginner post took off
- Accelerate writing out all the content
- How Peter decided on what work to delegate:
- Rule of 3: No more than 3 priorities
- Content
- Design the website
- Growing the community
- What it’s like to run a remote company with a part time work force
- What tools are safe in DAO.
- A communication platform: Discord
- Shared treasury - Crypto wallet that multiple people have access to: Gnosis safe
- Crowdfunding: Mirror has no code tools to set up the crowd fund, sell NFTs, and sell governance token
- Voting proposals using governance token: Snapshot
- The main point of the DAO is to give core contributors upside and ownership
- How OdysseyDAO has guided learning onramps.
- How do you build an audience on Twitter?
- What Peter would have done differently building out the DAO
- What the future of OdysseyDAO looks like
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