💊Better DAO
Silver Door was founded by world leading DAO experts.
Silver Door has solutions for some of the most debilitating problems of DAOs:
Exponential Operational Overhead
Too Many Cooks
Agent None
Exponential Operational Overhead
DAOs are open horizontal quasi or completely democratic organizations; as such anyone can put forth ideas and shape the destiny of the org. This freedom to self-determine and insist upon the determination of the organization is the super power of DAOs.
This can also quickly become a nightmare; as each new member participating in the decision making process multiplies the resource requirements of these operations.
Symptoms:
Governance fatigue
Governance paralysis
Lack of individual autonomy and freedom
Solution:
Silver Door needs to carefully decide how to expend the massive amount of energy required to conduct DAO-wide voting. Some things we probably need to vote on:
Board of Director Seat Elections
New Members
Discretionary (Non-essential) Budgets
As long as the ultimate power to execute the will of the DAO falls upon the membership itself; then everything else is permitted.
Too Many Cooks
The “too many cooks” problem can arise when people with different skillsets, knowledge or comprehension attempt to solve the same problem. The lack of clear rules and a specific code of conduct can result in conflict, with everyone trying to add their own flavor to the mix.
Symptoms:
Diluted personal responsibility
Slow or ineffective internal projects
Abandoned projects
Apathy
Solution:
We know that this problem is tractable, because it's been largely solved for in Raid Guild during the client engagement process. When we are raiding - everyone knows their role, requirements and we just get stuff done.
Silver Door will have clear spheres and subdomains of expertise. That should help to create clear lanes for the three different functions of the DAO. Product people can do product things without worrying about branding, marketing or negotiating with potential partners.
We also foster some common social conventions that are palatable and benign from the traditional workplace.
Agent None
Corporations succeed and thrive by having specialized experts work on specific problem sets; with great agency. DAOs can be like a void. Participants can feel like they have a good idea; but that they aren’t welcome or allowed to take action.
Agency is powerful and efficient and DAOs will not thrive without agents.
Symptoms:
Low participation
Friction
Participant turn over
Solution:
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