20: BlockbusterDAO on The Creator Economy, Evolution of Streaming, and Brand Acquisitions // Tasafila & Gugz

Tasafila, the founder of BlockbusterDAO is here as our guest. We also have Gugz, who is also a CityDAO citizen and very active in the community guilds. Some of the topics that we discussed on the show today include the evolution of streaming, the creator economy, brand acquisitions, and so much more. We will also focus on our fellow Web3 community – BlockbusterDAO, what it’s all about and how they started.

BlockbusterDAO is a decentralized streaming ecosystem that enables an unprecedented, direct relationship between creators, curators, and consumers. They give creators the freedom to distribute and monetize their content and fans the ability to curate content and earn as a result, all on a community-owned and governed platform.

Time-Stamped Show Notes:

• 2:36 Tasafila: talks about the BlockbusterDAO.
• 4:57 Tasafila: a 20-year roadmap is one of their first big accomplishments as a DAO.
• 7:50 Gugz: from his perspective, the approach to growing and building BlockbusterDAO is different.
• 9:35 Gugz: further studies have shown that people want something different when it comes to streaming platforms and entertainment studios.
• 11:47 Tasafila: buying and owning the Blockbuster brand, they understand the importance of having both intrinsic and extrinsic value.
• 14:46 Gugz: provides some of the top priorities of BlockbusterDAO for the coming months.
• 16:20 Tasafila: shares his origin story of BlockbusterDAO.
• 19:17 Tasafila: before BlockbusterDAO, he had a DAO concept that he was trying to pitch but he was having difficulty in pitching it and giving it traction.
• 23:40 Gugz: gives his own insight on people starting their own DAOs and choosing whether to push on their vision no matter what or decide that there is no product fit for this particular idea.
• 25:31 Tasafila: Based on the community response to their DAO, they had to do some pivots and changes.
• 28:24 Tasafila: there is something that they did in this Web3 space that helped them tremendously but other people are not doing it.
• 32:13 Gugz: talks about the current situation of Netflix and how people are more open to different ways of consuming content.
• 36:11 Tasafila: believes that they should not force creators to a specific algorithm or box that they have to adjust to. He feels that this system of sticking to a certain algorithm is unfair to the content creators.
• 38:00 Gugz: explains why content creators who want to monetize their videos might want to look for a different platform.
• 43:13 Tasafila: in the next decade, some of the biggest companies would utilize decentralized tools in some capacity.
• 45:55 Gugz: shares his own experience about being employed in a DAO.
• 47:15 Tasafila: finds out that about 80 percent of contributors in the DAO space are not paid, which he believes should change in the future.
• 49:24 Eric: goes on a little rant about DAOs and its election system being more stable than a traditional job.
• 55:34 Gugz: one of the reasons he is in CityDAO is because he is down for the experiment.

Key Points from the Interview:

1. Tasafila: “It’s funny how people are just throwing in items or ideas but aren’t really ready to execute on those. So, it makes a lot of sense to really reduce and find that core value or core validation for something, and really focus there because that will scale much faster than trying to attack a bunch of different problems to cover more ground.”
2. Gugz: “I’m hoping that Blockbuster will be one of the many places that people can come a lot more freely and still enjoy incredible amounts of incredible content.”

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