GM Builders,
there's a common misconception that to DAO is to launch something run by a swarm, without any clearly defined roles. That couldn't be further from the truth.
DAOs need structure.
In my experience, that also means they need clearly defined workstreams, which include leads for those workstreams.
People need structure to stick around.
If you want to build a DAO to change how we develop and distribute medicine, then you need the right vision, the right groups, and the right alignment for it. VitaDAO's a good benchmark for something like this. Yes, they're focused on longevity but both require scientists and technicians experienced in the niche and both require someone to take the treatments developed to market.
This second group has to include deal-flow professionals, operations managers, salesmen, and any other position you can think of if you imagine a medicine reaching patients.
To put it even more simply, there's creating the treatment and there's packaging it and distributing it. All groups need to have pre-set structures in MVP format from day one so when the DAO launches, everyone has a place to go.
Just because it's a DAO, doesn't mean it can't have something like departments. The key difference is that regardless of who leads the departments on a day-to-day basis, everyone can propose anything to vote on and pass, to improve the structure as a whole.
DAOs are, and always will be, collectively run.
To degrees. On a gradient scale.
And to me, they always will be better than any other way of doing business or building community. This doesn't mean, however, that everyone will shift to DAOs and everything will become DAOs.
It does, however mean that DAOs will be the dominant paradigm for any sort of organization that's vision-centered. For that to be clearer, we need to take DAOs further.
With some of my dear friends who have been building longer than me, I've been thinking about what that means. About how we qualify "further," and what the next key moment is.
This week, I realized, we need to reimagine what the DAO tried to do back in 2016.
We need a DAO of DAOs for grants, with one vision uniting everyone involved and more funding than any singular program can provide, all focused on the apps of the future. If we don't do that, we'll lose our way for a while longer and web3 will take far longer to coalesce into the norm.
Next week, I'll dig deeper into this idea of a DAOs of DAOs. Until then, thanks for reading and remember, we can connect at any time on the Push DAO governance forum or via the Push DAO X account.