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This feels like the right time personally and professionally, including that he has the financial means to sustain himself for a while, and because of the promise of community funding tools like NFTs and community tokens.

One of his keys to success: Bell sets aside hours each week to solely do curation and find inspiration. He’ll browse Tumblr and build countless boards on Are.na. “Are.na is my favorite website ever, the browse page is amazing, you can look at everything being added in real-time to the site,” he said. “That feed is the most organic, serendipitous pl... See more

The DAO model appeals to him because it allows members to allocate a certain number of tokens to fund a project, and all sign off on it.

He’s been inspired by watching successful DAOs like Friends with Benefits, a private discord server for creators that members have to buy into in the form of cryptocurrency tokens. But unlike with Friends with Benefits, where you’re paying for access, he doesn’t want a token-gated community. He instead wants to sell products and experiences via tok... See more

“Given where Poolsuite is now, putting in some hours on Saturdays and Sundays, I have no idea what’s going to happen when I go full-time on it. It’s going to be mad,” he said. ​​”Poolsuite is my ultimate passion project and what feels like a direct internet personification of me as a person, my baby, that I've never given the majority of my energy ... See more

“I want to create the most eccentric brand of tech that people just shake their heads about like, ‘What are they doing now?’” he said. “I want to go after extremely ambitious projects people aren’t doing that we have the technology to pull off. I want to do those kind of projects back to back.”

“I see this as an evolution of the digital playground that Poolsuite has been - you don’t have investors to answer to, just community token holders, and that makes it take a very different direction.”