Danielle Vermeer

We’re especially bad at talking about it because of a collective tendency to treat ailments as personal. Sure, we can acknowledge that it takes a small village to support someone battling cancer. But what if the damn village caused the cancer? And not just one person’s cancer, or their immediate family’s, but everyone who looks like them, or lives... See more

A board chair leads the board’s effort to excel at advising on strategy, monitoring performance, overseeing finance and controls, and evaluating management. A CEO establishes within the company a shared set of values, practices, and goals that enables the company to execute its strategic plan and build a meaningful future. To grow, a company needs... See more

There are four atomic units of a 1.0 flywheel:Acquire: how users are acquired into the community (e.g. they sign up)Consume: the mechanisms that drive content consumption (e.g. a newsfeed)Create: the mechanisms that entice users to create content (e.g. social status)Harvest: how new content created leads to more inbound growth (e.g. SEO)

Corteiz Bolo is evidence that these consumers prefer a sense of belonging over status.

In this instance, investors would probably like to see founders who are “native enough” to understand crypto and Web3 with a lot of depth and nuances, who have the right network to attract crypto engineers, but who also so native that they can’t understand the experience of the average mainstream, non-crypto user they might be talking to.