"Age of Miracles"

DAOs - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - are the next stop down the Web3 rabbit hole after NFTs.  We explore:  

- The DAO's $6.6b Hack 

- What's a DAO? 

- Coinbase vs. Uniswap 

- $UNI vs $SUSHI

- Progressive Decentralization 

- 7 Powers Analysis 

- The Future

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Epidemic Sound just raised $450 million at a $1.4 billion valuation to Soundtrack the World.

Spotify's Stream On event showed the company is ready to do battle with the labels.  

The time is right: Spotify should acquire Epidemic.

We cover: 

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UserLeap helps product teams continuously discover customer needs and evaluate the user experience via short, highly targeted surveys (microsurveys) displayed contextually within the product. Companies use UserLeap to track NPS, iterate toward Product-Market Fit, improve onboarding, reduce churn, and make the myriad small improvements that make a great product.

The magic of UserLeap is that it quantifies qualitative feedback by collecting rich, written responses, in real-time, and using machine learning to analyze and categorize the responses to pull out themes.

In today's Sponsored Deep Dive, we cover: 

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Edmund Zagarin is the co-founder and CEO of BidOps, a startup building strategic sourcing software powered by AI.

We discuss the global supply chain, how survey design informs good procurement software design, and how college debate informs the way that Edmund approaches running a startup.

Of course, we start out by asking Edmund to convince us that procurement is not boring. 

If you want to learn more about the intersection of AI and procurement, check out BidOps' March 24th conference, Optimal.

Excel may be the most influential software ever built. If you want to see the future of B2B software, look at what Excel users are hacking together in spreadsheets today.

Excel’s success has inspired the creation of software whose combined enterprise value dwarfs that of Excel alone. There are two main ways Excel has set the broad roadmap for the B2B software industry for decades, and will continue to for years to come:

We love Excel, everyone reading this probably loves Excel, and still, its impact is deeply underappreciated. Ben Rollert and Packy team up to cover:

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Why is Jack Dorsey so much worse at being the CEO of Twitter than he is at being the CEO of Square?

Marc Rubinstein and I teamed up to tackle that question, and came away thinking that maybe Jack doesn't run the two companies so differently after all. We cover:

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Marc Rubinstein is a former financial sector-focused hedge fund manager who writes one of the best financial sector newsletters there is: Net Interest. Marc has written about everything from newer players like Ant Financial and Facebook’s Diem, to huge banks like Citi, to explainers on things that only industry insiders would know. You should subscribe now if you’re interested in … money.

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Beacons is building a link in bio into a competitive space, and I think it's going to win.

The link in bio is the point of leverage in the Creator Economy value chain, and Beacons' early growth indicates that they are building something that stands above the rest. In this episode, we cover:

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It's been a wild month for the Passion Economy, crypto, and NFTs. While it feels frothy, and certain asset prices certainly are, I think it points to a larger future. This episode is a thought experiment based on three ideas:

The Creator Economy and NFTs are massive human potential unlocks. Even if certain assets are in a short-term bubble, we are on an inexorable march towards individuals mattering more than institutions.

We’re on the precipice of a creative explosion, fueled by putting power, and the ability to generate wealth, in the hands of the people. Armed with powerful technical and financial tools, individuals will be able to launch and scale increasingly complex projects and businesses. Within two decades, we will have multiple trillion-plus dollar publicly traded entities with just one full-time employee, the founder.

We'll cover: 

To read the original piece, head over to notboring.co. 

AltoIRA makes it easy to invest in alternative assets like startups, real estate, private equity, and even crypto, all through your IRA. 

I sat down with Alto's CEO, Eric Satz, to talk about why he started Alto, what they're building, and what he wants the CEOs of Southwest and BlackRock to say about Alto in the future.

To learn more and sign up for Alto, use the Not Boring link and an Alto team member will guide you through the process.

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It feels like we're in a tech bubble, but what if I told you that the best startups and non-FAAMG public tech companies are actually undervalued? 

In today's Not Boring, we cover a different way of looking at tech valuations, not P/E, P/S, or FCF Multiple, but Price/FAAMG, or the probability that younger tech companies can become as big as today's biggest. From that perspective, they're cheap... Amazon and Facebook have outgrown startup valuations at every stage over the past decade. 

Read the original and check out the charts and graphics at Not Boring.