Mo Shafieeha

There are losses for hedge fund investors with large public portfolios at high-cost bases. An early-stage company whose public holdings fall 25% in value feels less pressure than a crossover firm when its portfolio falls from an 8X multiple-of-money to a 6X multiple-of-money. Public securities of such firms are underwater, and private holdings are... See more

Collective asset management DAOs are seeded with some initial capital in the form of governance tokens and assets used to buy governance tokens. The initial treasury of a DAO consists of 500 governance tokens and 100 ETH if it mints 1,000 governance tokens and sells 500 for 100 ETH to genesis members. When a DAO grows in terms of users or cash... See more

The Problem When Applied to DeFi dApps Even though DeFi is based on decentralized infrastructures (Ethereum), administrators can still tweak the code. It's common for companies to tweak code to get more transaction fees from Uniswap or Dy DX. Shareholders can leverage their negotiation power to get more value from the DeFi protocol when it grows... See more

1. Sustaining collaborative innovation among independent projects is a governance problem.


2. A core part of governance is determining an optimal division of rights to control project decisions across various stakeholders.


3. Blockchains frequently require participation of multiple independent platform layers to deliver functionality to end users.


4. Some of

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There is a time limit on when ex-pats can survive in a foreign country. In Saigon, the informal number I hear most is three years. This horizon differs from person to person and varies according to the host country. Those who survive beyond three years are usually able to remain indefinitely. The author decided to do a few things to survive his... See more

As a result, we have a fork in the road: group1 is made up of people who feel sedated after a few drinks, while group2 is made up of people who don't feel sedated after a few drinks (predisposition to alcoholism).

Changing the product domain made it easier to navigate. You can have two product development processes: Ask customers what problems they have and build for them. Or you don't ask customers anything and rely on internal product leaders' taste and judgment. Customer obsession and taste are parallel paths to product success. Some domains, like Lean... See more

The article describes seven strategies for every consumer app’s early growth. You can read about the founders' stories per strategy in the main article.

It makes sense to him to look at organizational design from a more practical perspective by referring to it as 'searching for form-context fit.' You can make small changes to your team or observe how changes percolate throughout the entire company. You just have to watch, try things out, and then reflect on what happens if you want to learn how to... See more