Mo Shafieeha

Rule 4: Reasoning by Analogy is … OK!

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 most attractive startups are those that have counterintuitive behavior plus traction. These ideas often develop at the seam between "natives" and "immigrants". Instagram-natives are likely to see a new retail space or ecomm brand differently than those who aren't exposed to the same thousands of pictures.

Use governance tools To enable DAO members to understand what it means to vote to reduce collateral/margin requirements or increase interest rates, several quantitative tools have emerged to visualize DAO risk (and possibly their protocols). Aave and Compound, for instance, hold billions of dollars in assets to backstop lending protocols. DAO... See more

The Problem For every business in the world, they tend to bring together three groups of people:

• Capital providers — those that provide the start-up financial capital and own the shares in the company. They hold all of the decision making power.


• Supply-siders — those that provide the human or machine capital that ultimately creates a good or service.

... See more

People who start drinking at a young age (13-15) are more likely to get addicted to alcohol, no matter if their families are alcoholism-prone. Even if there's a history of alcoholism in the family, a person who waits till their early 20s is less likely to become addicted to alcohol. If you drink consistently (even in small amounts, like one drink a... See more

Read plenty of "what went wrong" eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. But also know that the lens from which they tell you the answer is flawed and narrative biases are present.