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People, Not Money, Hold a DAO Together | Devcon

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0:00A: But I think for anything that isn’t like a giant protocol DAO, it’s actually like the humans.

0:04B: So how do you feel, or like what would you say is a very effective way to like not incentivize, but like activate people within your community to take part in important decisions?

0:19A: Yeah, sort of like running off the last question, but even to that, kind of the same answer, which I think is like the social element of it is like, the thing. I think in all DAOs, you know, like all -- certainly all community DAOs, maybe these giant monolithic protocol DAOs when they have a billion dollars, maybe it’s money, you know, that ends up being the thing that ties people together. But I think for anything that isn’t like a giant protocol DAO, it’s actually like the humans. It’s like, no, I don’t want to fuck over this DAO because I’ve been part of it for a year and like, I keep, you know, it’s a part of my identity. And sort of like how you build more of that into like, um, different DAOs, you know, like I think it’s like Almost the main metric you should be thinking about is like how much entanglement do sort of the people have inside of it.

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