This week, we spoke with Lg Doucet of The First Mint. The First Mint is a web3 media brand and leading content source for new & established NFT projects, with a focus on Sports & Entertainment. LG and I met during Seed Club's second accerlator, right when his community and podcast were exploding in popularity. We spoke about the rollercoaster LG has been on with the popularity of NBA top shot, and as the hype happened, how he has stayed true to his community and purpose. Lots to learn from someone who has been at this for over a year!

On our final episode of the DAO contributor series, we speak with Nnnnicolas. We learn about his experience entering the DAO landscape the many DAOs he has contributed to, such as FWB, Party DAO, Shark DAO, and, most impactfully, JuiceBox. We learn about what payroll looks like in a DAO like JuiceBox.  Navigating leaving a DAO and lessons learned, And what Nnnnicolas is up to today.

Today we are joined by Pandy Marino. Pandy is the steward of the community team at Seed Club. And has been a high-impact DAO contributor at SC. Today we talk about how she ended up at SC. Her search for clarity. The frustration drove her away from web2 communities and down the web3 rabbit hole.

This week, I spoke with one of my favorite humans in web3, the one and only Samsonite: multihyphenate artist, producer and Seed Club OG. Samsonite's path through Seed Club, as an Accelerator alumnus, collaborator, and now producing the Club Pod, is a lesson in joining a DAO and finding a community that speaks to you. We discuss what work looks like in web3, and nontraditional pathways to DAO contribution.

Today we are joined by Mark Redito, a DAO contributor at Songcamp. In this episode, we explore what Mark was up to before getting into web3. This conversation speaks to the social and human aspects of DAOs. Building trust in a community, resolving conflicts in DAOs vs. traditional organizations. And Mark leaves us with some resources that have helped him shape his thinking. 

Today Nicole speaks with Global Coin Research founder Joyce Yang. GCR is a research and investment DAO focused on Web3. Joyce and Nicole discussed the early days of GCR, including her experience going through Seed Club's SC02 cohort, and the learnings on teams and tooling she's gained over the last year since launching the GCR token and building her project into a fully functional DAO.

Today we continue with our DAO contributor series with prolific DAO Contributor Chase Chapman. Chase is a contributor to Index Coop, Orca Protocol, and Rabbit Hole. Chase is also the host of the Otherside podcast. In this episode, we go deep, challenging the current narratives of DAOs. Explored what it looks like to enter and join a DAO as a contributor and how we might make that process better. And Chase spends some time talking about how cities and citizens might be the best way to think about DAOs and token holders, and we're going to unpack what that means

Welcome to the first episode of the DAO contributor series, where we sit down with the early full-time contributors in the web3 ecosystem to shine a light on some of the pain points and day to day operations of what it is like actively building on the front lines in the future of work on the internet. In this episode, we sit down with Patti Hauseman, an operations contributor at FWB. We learn about Patti's journey entering the web3 space and how she worked her way through to the full-time operations role at FWB. We go deep into the onboarding process at FWB and how those pathways have evolved. And FWB's experience building web3 healthcare options for their contributors

Today we hear from HEAT, a community creating a new Marketplace for Dancers and movement online, using motion capture and metaversal interoperability. I spoke with co-founder Brady on his initial spark for HEAT, the process of selecting core partners, his go-to-community learnings, and how he finds a balance between art-making, building, and marketing.

Today's guest is Cherie Hu, Seed Club alumni and founder of Water & Music, a membership-funded newsletter, research hub, and community forum focused on the intersection between music and tech. We discussed Cherie's process of building the foundation of Water & Music before making the transition into a DAO, the tools used to create deep, authentic connections between members, and how codes of conduct have emerged and adapted as the community has grown.