Building At The Edges

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'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.

We're taking a brief winter break and will be back soon with new episodes of Building at the Edges. In the meantime, enjoy this episode from the archive.

For our final episode of Season 2, we return to web3 first principles: community tokens create yet-unrealized opportunities within an immeasurable design space at the intersection of culture, ownership, and value creation. The realization of these opportunities is inevitable — but the timeline and cadence remains unknown. Derek Schloss is a partner at Collab+Currency and a regular guest on Proof with Kevin Rose. Derek and Jess explore possible futures for the community token design space, taking both inspiration and cautions from Nouns, Art Blocks, Chromie Squiggles, and $10 pizza with a friend. While internet native communities have leveled up innovation on the side of pooled capital, we have yet to unlock truly novel ways of allocating that capital using shared decision-making. The builders who both perceive the unrealized opportunities and sit in the discomfort of a novel design space will be the ones to watch through the next cycles of innovation.

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.