How to Grow a DAO
summary
Argues DAOs grow by practical structure not ideology: start small with a core team, add delegated governance and a whip to drive votes, then formalize reputation and roles as membership scales; launch without a token and mint one later for weighted voting. Recommends concrete toolchain—AstroDAO, sputnik fund, a telegram bot on NEAR—with flexible permissions, upgradable contracts and streaming payments for salaries. Notes over a hundred DAOs live and over one million moved in the past 30 days.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:12Welcome
- 1:34What are DAOs
- 1:57Flexibility
- 3:01Ways to use a DAO
- 3:23Learnings so far
- 6:32Coordination
- 8:31Ownership and Goals
- 10:21Growth Stages
- 12:27Roles
- 13:28Communities
- 14:20Ecosystem
- 14:47Dial
- 15:01DAO
- 15:57Tokens
- 16:46Streaming Payments
- 17:14Outro
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