Do you remember the first time you ever heard the word “DAO”? Maybe your green-pilled web3 friend was trying to sell you the idea, or you saw it in a tweet during the bull market. We’ve surely all gone through the process of diving into a rabbit hole around this nascent vision. Naturally, this discovery leads us to wonder, “should my project be a DAO?” Understanding the layers of what makes a DAO a DAO can help us comprehend the various opportunities and obstacles of organizing as one. 

Have you ever heard the saying “a little competition never hurts” ? While we’ve all been conditioned to accept and embrace some level of competition, cooperation can take us further. Within Web3, we’ve heard the term ‘coopetition’ thrown around to describe how projects are interacting and evolving in the space. There is no doubt that Web3 brings with it a new culture, technology, and business model that disrupts the Web2 ‘winner-takes-all’ mindset.