On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Julia Lipton, Founder and General Partner at Awesome People Ventures, about unlocking latent potential in humans, finding product market fit in web3 communities, and the most important things happening in the global landscape right now.

In many ways it’s surprising that it took us until Season 7 to bring Julia on the podcast because she has actually played a part in Rehash from Day 0 as you’ll hear us talk about at the beginning of this episode. Julia is an investor, connector of people, and all around one of the kindest and most generous humans I’ve encountered in this space.

In this episode we start out by talking about DAO Masters, a project she crowdfunded through Mirror that ended up winding down last summer, and what she learned about the give-get equation through her experience there. She wrote a really thoughtful Twitter thread about the give-get equation that I’ve linked in the show notes and would encourage you all to check out, especially if you’re someone working in or adjacent to the DAO ecosystem.

We then get into a discussion around why there’s so much latent and unused human talent floating around in the corporate world and what people have been doing about it, such as flocking to freelance and contract work, or even to DAOs. Obviously DAOs aren’t perfect and are far from it, but Julia shares some strategies she thinks could be implemented for DAOs to be more effective in their operations while maintaining the same draw they have for people today.

Finally, we talk about what Julia is most focused on in the global landscape with crypto and nintynick chimes in with a question about progressive decentralization.

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• Give/get equation

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:10 Julia’s involvement with Rehash from Day 0

4:34 Why DAO Masters shut down

10:29 Communities as products

17:04 Why human talent is so underutilized in corporate world

22:25 What v2 of DAOs might look like

26:46 Awesome People Ventures and Awesome People Talent

31:31 Global landscape for freelancers

32:23 Development of global currencies

37:15 Types of projects Julia is focused on in 2024

39:45 Progressive decentralization

42:25 BTC/ETH ATH 2024

43:17 Follow Julia

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