Mo Shafieeha

3. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses Facebook is likely to let you scale a video product really, really, quickly if you figure out how to do it. Platforms cannot allow outsiders to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without paying the appropriate tax or benefit to them. A perfect competitor would be one that is unable to respond because of The... See more

Principles of Organization Design

1. Free Yourself From the Past


2. Design With Knowledge of Your DNA

Asset curation The most natural place for asset curation is NFT collection DAOs, such as PleasrDAO. DeFi DAOs can also face this problem. DeFi DAOs use their governance tokens as art and culture curators to vote on adding or removing assets. Anyone can create a trading pool in Uniswap, but those with leverage cannot. Governance determines which... See more

Investing in companies at times of uncertainty can be an opportunity for investors. Silver Lake's early investment in AirBnB during a time of "distress" was a stroke of genius. Being willing to "be greedy" and take chances can generate outsized returns. It is likely that the best companies during this period will become leaner, more long-term... See more

Having the primary action on the left before the secondary action is considered better by some designers because it is closer and, therefore, easier to click. This makes sense, but you cannot ignore the fact that users will look at all of their options before choosing which action to take. As they function like pagination buttons, 'Ok' and 'Cancel'... See more

The rise of financial incentives In order to encourage participation in DeFi (decentralized finance), new DAOs offered financial incentives. Those who do not have financial incentives would not invest time, money, and energy in networks, vote on proposals to improve them, or care about their futures. Here are some examples that can help builders... See more