In this episode of Ventures, my guest Mike Anderson (https://twitter.com/mikeyanderson) and I discuss the latest updates with BanyanDAO (https://www.BanyanDAO.xyz), scaling DAOs, and NFT strategies for product managers. We also talk about management and operations nuances in DAOs vs. traditional organizations, the Yuga Labs Otherdeeds drop last weekend, the phenomenon of dynamic NFTs that change based on interactions, and the steps you can take (and should take!) to get more involved with BanyanDAO.

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1:35 - Tee-up for the episode, continuing the conversation from Ep93 (https://satchel.works/@wclittle/ventures-episode-93).

1:57 - Quick background on Mike, and more about BanyanDAO (background, goals, mission, vision, and current status). West Africa twitter spaces for BanyanDAO → https://twitter.com/BanyanDao/status/1521615179976372226 

3:09 - What is a DAO?

4:29 - Elections on the blockchain; types of uses for blockchains

5:09 - BanyanDAO pre-season and Season 1 commentary / description / projects

7:54 - More about the NFT project within BanyanDAO

8:17 - Internal teams to help scale DAOs; architecture discussion & approach

10:35 - Commentary about Saturday night’s Yuga Labs’ Otherside.xyz mint.

13:45 - Parallels between the NFT project in BanyanDAO with the Otherside / Otherdeed mint. Discussion about dynamic NFTs.

16:01 - NFTs as “apps” // Pondering exponential growth

17:37 - What is Mike looking forward to personally? What will he be working on within BanyanDAO? (and outside BanyanDAO?)

20:16 - Steps to take to get involved with BanyanDAO? https://banyandao.xyz/ // Discord: https://discord.gg/T7s7zGNan9 

21:27 - Follow Mike at https://twitter.com/mikeyanderson and BanyanDAO https://twitter.com/BanyanDAO