Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Who gets to decide what, for whom? Governance is one of the trickiest challenges people have faced, from ancient city-states to AI startups. Experts Noah Feldman, constitutional law scholar at Harvard who architected the Meta oversight board and has written multiple books, and Andrew Hall, professor of political science at Stanford and consultant to a16z crypto research, join a16z crypto editor Robert Hackett for a hallway-style conversation touring the field’s big ideas, lessons learned in practice, and the most exciting experiments happening today. They discuss everything from the history of democracy, to the dynamics (and dysfunctions) of corporate and university boards, to the hopes for blockchain-based DAOs and beyond, as well as examples of governance from big companies like Meta to startups like Anthropic, and much more.

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0:00.0	2024 is an important year for democracy.
0:04.0	This year over 60 countries have and will head to the polls
0:08.0	representing just about half of the global population.
0:11.0	But governance extends past the leaders of nation states.
0:15.0	In fact, as the revenue of some companies dwarf the economies of some nations,
0:20.0	the way these entities govern themselves is both more interesting and more important than ever.
0:26.0	Listen into this episode originally published on our sister podcast, web through with A16Z,
0:31.2	as they explore topics ranging from content moderation to incentivizing participation to new
0:36.5	governance experiments from Dao's to oversight boards. I hope you enjoy. Hello and welcome to Web 3 with A16Z.
0:47.0	I'm Robert Hackett and today we have a special episode about governance in many forms, from nation
0:55.9	states to corporate boards to internet services and beyond.
1:00.5	Our special guests are Noah Feldman, constitutional law professor at Harvard, who also
1:05.2	architected the Meta Oversight Board, among many other things.
1:09.2	He is also the author of several books.
1:11.6	And our other special guest is Andy Hall, professor of political science at Stanford, who is an
1:17.2	advisor to A16Z crypto research, and who also co-authored several papers and posts about Web 3 as a laboratory for designing and testing new political systems,
1:29.0	including new work we'll link to in the show notes.
1:32.0	Our hallway style conversation covers technologies and approaches to governance
1:36.9	from constitutions to crypto blockchains and dowels.
1:40.6	As such, we also discuss content moderation and community standards, best practices for citizens
1:46.4	assemblies, courts versus legislatures, and much more where governance comes up.
1:52.3	Throughout we reference the history and evolution of democracy,
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