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03: First Citizen of CityDAO & Discussion about DAO’s Overall // Justin Kalland

Background:

Justin Kalland is the first founding citizen of CityDAO. He is also a member of the CityDAO core team. Justin is passionate about technological applications that can help improve humanity and our home. Through the years, Justin has built successful tech startups that focus on people, culture, and team empowerment. Being the CityDAO founding citizen, he has been heavily involved in the project.

In this interview, Justin offers more insight about CityDAO and the DAO space in general. He shares some valuable information that can help people understand what a Decentralized Autonomous Organization is all about. Justin is currently the CTO at eve, which provides event cancellation insurance for events. He has also been involved in Empire Minecraft, GameLoot Inc., and GSN Games.

 

Time-Stamped Show Notes:

  • 1:12 Justin shares the story of how he started CityDAO.
  • 3:15 Finally, Justin has decided to focus solely on decentralized projects or go full DAO to see what he can accomplish.
  • 4:11 The work history of Justin includes Empire Minecraft and GameLoot. He started as a young entrepreneur and became interested in gaming.
  • 6:33 The discussion shifts to the role of leadership within a decentralized environment.
  • 9:59 Justin delves more into the evolution of leadership in a DAO.
  • 12:36 The CityDAO is a grand experiment, according to Justin, and they are all scientists.
  • 14:27 Joining the CityDAO discord and Twitter, Justin met the other CityDAO founders.
  • 15:20 Justin talks about the process of becoming the first citizens in CityDAO.
  • 18:12 The two DAOs that Justin spends the most time on are CityDAO and Proof of Humanity.
  • 19:46 When it comes to the future of CityDAO, Justin doesn’t have any long-term vision for it.
  • 23:20 There are several short-term challenges that the CityDAO founders and citizens have to deal with.
  • 25:54 The DAO space is still mostly undefined, which poses some risks for the founders and communities.
  • 28:56 Justin thinks that they need a union of DAOs that can talk to politicians and have local and federal representation.
  • 30:40 Eric has a spontaneous idea during this interview about having the CityDAO community talk to their local politicians.
  • 33:53 Being the first CityDAO citizen, Justin feels a bit bashful about it but it also feels strange, stressful, and exciting.
  • 35:07 Justin enumerates some of the things that may happen to the DAO space for the next 6 to 10 months.
  • 38:04 For Justin, the best DAO resource for interested people is to just jump in and be a part of it, join their discord, and get involved.

 

Key Points from the Interview:

  1. “DAOs aren’t a lack of leadership, they’re an abundance of leadership. It’s actually the opposite. Instead of having one CEO, or two founders, you have a whole arsenal.”
  2. “Decentralization is, I believe, humanity’s greatest tool against tyranny.”

 

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