Why Creators Should Build DAOs to Empower Super Fans

Mint Season 4 episode 26 welcomes Yury Liftshits, Founder and CEO of SuperDAO, an all-in-one DAO formation platform that recently raised $11.5M in seed and pressed funding. Before Superdao, Yury has started four companies with one major exit, is a YCombinator alum, Ph.D. in Computer Science, and was teaching grad-level cryptography courses even before Bitcoin was invented. A long time ago he also won two gold medals at International Math Olympiad. 

In this episode, he shares why creators should leverage DAO models to build fan clubs, and why owning your monetization channels and incentivizing aligned participation is the future foundation for building a community.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 02:05 - Yury’s Previous Startup: The Discord Killer
• 05:39 - How Yury Got Started With DAOs
• 17:16 - Building Products In Web2 vs Web3
• 22:57 - Thoughts on The Emergence of Creator DAOs
• 31:53 - How To Do an SEC Complaint Token Raise (Not Legal Advice)
• 33:41 - Strategies for Generating Revenue in DAOs
• 42:59 - Why Creators Should Build DAOs to Monetize Super Fans
• 48:35 - DAO Trends for 2022
• 54:26 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Yury Liftshits: https://twitter.com/yurylifshits

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

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