BREAKDOWN: The State of DAOs With Syndicate’s Ian Lee
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Plus an announcement around Web3 Investment Clubs.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW is joined by Ian Lee, co-founder at Syndicate. Syndicate helps groups tap into Web 3 tools to transform investing and capital allocation. Today Syndicate announced their Web3 Investment Clubs that effortlessly turn any Web 3 wallet into an investment DAO. In this conversation, they discuss:
- Ian’s background and how he got interested in DAOs
- Why the tooling for DAOs wasn’t ready in 2018
- Key 2021 milestones for DAOs
- How DAOs interact with the existing legal structure
- Why democratizing investing can transform the world
- What’s coming for DAOs in 2022
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| 0:00.0 | This idea of, isn't there a more network-native community-driven model for investing in these |
| 0:07.7 | technologies that are fundamentally network-native and community-owned, there must be some better |
| 0:14.5 | model for that, that is both more network-native, but also more compliant and safe than previous models like the ICO model. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:29.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:35.2 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:43.0 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, January 25th, and today I am joined by Ian Lee of Syndicate. |
| 0:50.8 | Now, before we get into that discussion, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe |
| 0:55.4 | to it, give it five stars, review it if the app you listen to as reviews, or if you want to |
| 1:00.3 | dive into the conversation in a much deeper way, come join the breakers discord. You can find a |
| 1:06.4 | link in the show notes, or you can go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. Also, disclosure, as always, in addition to |
| 1:14.7 | them being a sponsor, I also work with FTX. So, I am joined today by Ian Lee. Ian has been in the |
| 1:22.7 | crypto space in investing and product roles since 2014. He helped IDEO start their first crypto fund, and for the last |
| 1:29.9 | couple of years has turned his attention to Daos. Ian is the co-founder of Syndicate Protocol, and here's how |
| 1:36.7 | Syndicate describes itself on its website. Today's models for investing are leaving many people |
| 1:41.7 | out of what gets built in the world, by whom, for whom, |
| 1:45.2 | and where. Syndicate democratizes investing, empowering communities to raise and invest capital |
| 1:50.6 | like never before. It's a future that's more open, free, and fair. In short, Syndicate is trying |
| 1:56.5 | to use the tools available via Web 3, in particular DAWS, to make group-driven investing |
| 2:02.7 | much faster, easier, and more distributed. And that is something that I hugely, hugely support. |
| 2:08.6 | In this show, we're going to talk about the history of DAWS, what the last year did in terms of |
| 2:13.7 | increasing the profile of DAWS, what people are working and thinking on currently, |
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