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EPISODE #5: CATAPULT
September 29, 2023

How Catapult is empowering Web3 communities to connect, collaborate, and build.

CATAPULT

Creating bridges not mazes with DAO onboarding. Joining, participating, and building identity in a borderless talent pool. Catapult empowers Web3 communities to connect, collaborate, and build.

It was Entrepreneur First - a platform for pairing the future founders of the world’s leading tech companies that introduced the pair - It was a fourteen-hour conversation that started their journey of building Catapult.

HIGHLIGHTS

Revolutionary DAOs Segment
Global Coordination Segment
DAO Identity Segment
Cambrian Explosion Of DAOs Segment
Adding Context to DAOs

Rav Singh Sadhu

The news we consume shapes the lens through which we understand the world. This divisive truth stuck with Rav from childhood and steered him to explore building decentralised systems of journalism. In 2016, he Founded Market Mogul and attempted to build the first truly decentralised media platform with 2500 contributors across the world. Blockchain had not reached the level of maturity needed, but it sowed the seed of easily digestible context that would inform Catapult

Gregory Wilsenach

The son of an economist, Greg became interested in markets, incentives, and decentralisation at a very young age. He completed his PhD in mathematics and computer science as a Gates scholar at Cambridge. Here he worked problems foundational to our theory of algorithms, deepening his interest in decentralised coordination both as a researcher and in helping build markets in the developing world.

"The most valuable resource we have is human talent, and so the most important problem we have is how to best coordinate it. I'm hugely motivated to break down barriers that block this, most prominently borders."

EXPLORED IN THE EPISODE

  • The friction-filled experience of DAO onboarding and decision fatigue.
  • Unlocking global talent pools with improved systems of coordination.
  • Greater cohesion, understanding, derisking, and scalability of decentralised systems.
  • How Catapult is solving joining, participating, and building identity in multiple DAOs.
  • The Cambrian Explosion of the DAO ecosystem and mechanism design. 

TIMESTAMPS

4.00: Global GDP & Coordination 

6.00: Your Diet Of News & The World Lens

9.00: Intellectual Mining With Blockchain

10.49: Entrepreneur First - Meeting

12.48: Discovering DAOs with Daolicious 

14.00: The birth of Catapult

19.00: Fundraising & Selecting VCs

26.40: Why DAOs

31.30: Revolutionising Human Coordination 

35:40: Decentralising Governance

44.50: Usefulness & Usability

52:40: On-chain Identity & DAO Purpose

57.50: Onboarding Catapult

1.06.10: Adding Context To Potential

1.11.30: Future Vision

September 29, 2023

How Catapult is empowering Web3 communities to connect, collaborate, and build.

Timestamps
Firmographics
Links
Telegram
  • The friction-filled experience of DAO onboarding and decision fatigue.
  • Unlocking global talent pools with improved systems of coordination.
  • Greater cohesion, understanding, derisking, and scalability of decentralised systems.
  • How Catapult is solving joining, participating, and building identity in multiple DAOs.
  • The Cambrian Explosion of the DAO ecosystem and mechanism design. 

4.00: Global GDP & Coordination 

6.00: Your Diet Of News & The World Lens

9.00: Intellectual Mining With Blockchain

10.49: Entrepreneur First - Meeting

12.48: Discovering DAOs with Daolicious 

14.00: The birth of Catapult

19.00: Fundraising & Selecting VCs

26.40: Why DAOs

31.30: Revolutionising Human Coordination 

35:40: Decentralising Governance

44.50: Usefulness & Usability

52:40: On-chain Identity & DAO Purpose

57.50: Onboarding Catapult

1.06.10: Adding Context To Potential

1.11.30: Future Vision

Timestamps
Firmographics
Telegram
  • The friction-filled experience of DAO onboarding and decision fatigue.
  • Unlocking global talent pools with improved systems of coordination.
  • Greater cohesion, understanding, derisking, and scalability of decentralised systems.
  • How Catapult is solving joining, participating, and building identity in multiple DAOs.
  • The Cambrian Explosion of the DAO ecosystem and mechanism design. 

4.00: Global GDP & Coordination 

6.00: Your Diet Of News & The World Lens

9.00: Intellectual Mining With Blockchain

10.49: Entrepreneur First - Meeting

12.48: Discovering DAOs with Daolicious 

14.00: The birth of Catapult

19.00: Fundraising & Selecting VCs

26.40: Why DAOs

31.30: Revolutionising Human Coordination 

35:40: Decentralising Governance

44.50: Usefulness & Usability

52:40: On-chain Identity & DAO Purpose

57.50: Onboarding Catapult

1.06.10: Adding Context To Potential

1.11.30: Future Vision

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