DAO expert interviewee

[JFWooten4]

It'd be stellar to chat with Erik Voorhees for an episode covering these questions

[JFWooten4]

As an alternative with a lower profile, we could also chat with Prof. McCarthy, ut ad aliquem pertinet.

[JFWooten4]

About a year ago, we crowdsourced some questions for a DAO leader in the Discord, too:

Introductions

• What is your advice to newly formed DAO orgs/groups?
• What are your "meat and potatoes" for real-world implementation and best practices?
• What can regular members do to help ease the transition from theoretical to real-world?

Platforms

• What challenges have you observed in transitioning new users to decentralized governance, and how are you addressing these?
• What strategies have you implemented to engage and grow your community, especially among those new to decentralization?
• How do you handle the process of moving from a proposal to implementing an agreed-upon change in your DAO? (What steps are taken?)

Community

• How do you ensure that participants are engaged?
  • What do you do when engagement is not sufficient to meet the required quorum?
• How do you ensure fairness and prevent manipulation in the governance of your DAO?
  • Is your DAO at the point where it can function with no or minimal interference from its founders?
  • How did you get to this point, and what challenges did you face?
• Has there been a situation where founders had to step in to prevent things from going awry?
  • If the above has not happened, what have you put in place to prevent this?

Governance

• How do you weigh voting rights, and what is your reasoning for this choice?
  • Please discuss the general structure of your DAO and why you decided on this rather than an alternative.
• If you could go back to the beginning, knowing what you know now, would you change anything about how you set up your DAO?
• Do you have any specific recommendations for the WhyDRS DAO?
  • Are there any particular challenges or opportunities that the WhyDRS DAO should pay close attention to?¹

Others

• What do you think about the DAOs of some popular projects like Uniswap, etc.?
• What lessons can be taken away from the mistakes of the earliest DAOs?
• What do you think about for-profit DAO dividends vs. not-for-profits?

Footnotes

1. See also questions on configuring the DAO, tokens for platform management, and goal perseverance as a digital collective. ↩