Mo Shafieeha

By understanding user needs, motivations, and such, product thinking allows us to pinpoint the product's primary function. The goal of product thinking is to design solutions users will actually buy in order to solve problems. When a product is created to solve a problem that does not exist for its users, it will become obsolete and have limited... See more

Partition into “subgroups” The first DAO to partition itself successfully was Yearn Finance. Subgroups can operate independently and focus on specific tasks (development, marketing, etc.). With Yearn's growth and constant product evolution, multiple teams needed to independently handle tasks like front-end UX, core protocol development, and... See more

7. Build a community pre-launchKey question: Could you build a community now to leverage later?The founders of Stack Overflow both had large communities of existing followers from their previous online endeavors.

Despite its incredible progress, machine learning hasn't moved forward. McKinsey famously estimated that industries could unlock $5T+ of value by integrating machine learning. Although companies have invested a lot in AI, they still don't seem to be getting there. They describe a feeling of fatigue that has started to show that AI is just for elite... See more

DAOliticians for metagovernance If the metagovernance trend continues, I hypothesize that different interest groups will form political-party-like DAOs to advance their agendas. I will call these political-party-like DAOs “DAOlitical parties” and key individuals representing these parties “DAOliticians.” They are pronounced like political and... See more

A DAOlitician’s main role would be convincing other token holders to join their cause and delegate tokens to their union. DAOliticians are similar to politicians but also different in important ways. First, a DAOlitician’s voting power differs from another DAOlitician’s, but all politicians share the same voting power. Second, politicians are... See more