CityDAO Podcast | A Crypto City of the Future

Erick Gavin is the Executive Director of Venture Miami, an ecosystem builder, and strategist. While attending law school at the University of Miami he set his sights on technology. His experience and connections in the legal community afforded him the opportunity to make a meaningful pivot into the technology space with a new lens. He spent the next few years working in Product Design and doing Data Analysis merging the two into a specialization in Data Visualization. As such, he began teaching about leveraging data for social impact to students at Watson Institute and Design Thinking through the University of Miami.

Erick now focuses on leveraging Data and Design to solve complex problems, create impactful technology, and serve communities that have been historically left out of the innovation and technology space. He remains aligned with these goals through investments in purpose-aligned education, access to growth opportunities, and a commitment to collaboration towards audacious community goals.

Adam Miller is the Co-Founder of MIDAO.org, which helps DAOs incorporate in the Marshall Islands. MIDAO helps DAOs incorporate in the only jurisdiction that explicitly recognizes the unique structure of DAOs and ensures limited liability to its members. Adam previously founded DAOPlatform.io, providing strategy and technology consulting to help others launch & operate DAOs. He has invested in public and private companies, founded start-ups, and held executive leadership and board positions at small businesses. Adam is also passionate about supporting social causes and serves on various non-profit boards.

Adam spent 6 years in Emerging Technology Research at Capital Group, a global investment management firm with over $2T in assets under management. He started his career investing in and founding several social web platforms, including StudyAbroad101. He has a BS in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and certificates in Cybersecurity from UC Irvine and Cryptocurrencies from MIT Media Lab.

Welcome again to the CityDAO Podcast. Today, you are going to hear a different format than the usual one-on-one interview. This is a recording that was done on our discord channel with Bryan Petes, who is involved in numerous DAOs, such as Bankless DAO, DAOPunks, Polygon DAO, and CityDAO. Bryan is also the Co-Founder of Sobol, The Organizational Accountability Platform. The Sobol mission is to accelerate the business transition to decentralized and humanistic work. This episode is a question-and-answer series that was recently done live on the CityDAO discord. And, if you want to know more about Sobol, just visit their website at: Sobol.io

Today on the second episode of the Citizen’s Series, we have Nico & Dylan who are very stoked and excited to be in this show. Nico has just been voted as one of the CityDAO council, which has been totally unexpected for her. Part of the decentralization process of CityDAO is to put up a Citizen Council that will give more empowerment to the community and represent the majority of votes. Aside from being a CityDAO citizen, both Nico and Dylan are members of the Mars College program.

Dylan used to work for a Fortune 500 Company doing government contracts but he got burnt out and decided to look for more adventure in his life. With his pursuit for a more fulfilling life, Dylan joined a small organic farm and enrolled in the Mars College program. After spending two months in the organic farm, he became interested in DAO, which eventually led him directly to CityDAO.

Nico is a video game developer, making Augmented and Virtual Reality games. The pursuit for technological advancement excites her but she is also very much interested in the philosophical and spiritual pursuit of humanity. She became interested in Web 3 and crypto just recently and this led her to Mars College and CityDAO.

Welcome to the first episode of the Citizen’s Series here on the CityDAO Podcast. This series is where CityDAO citizens come to the show and we get to know them a little better. CityDAO is filled with diverse talents ranging from Web3, Politics, Construction, Real Estate, Business, Software Development, Thought Leaders, Economics, and much more, and we get to talk about all of it here in the Citizen’s Series. Today’s guest is Paul from DAOPunks, who is also from Florida. He is a graphics artist who created an amazing 3D art piece animation exclusively for CityDAO.

DAOPunks is a project born out of Bankless DAO. According to Paul, the main mission of DAOPunks is to provide grants to people who are working in the Web3 space. They want to provide much-needed grants to people who want to work full-time for DAOs. If you are interested in this project, just visit DAOPunks.io.

Greg is the original lead developer of CityDAO. Ever since that fateful tweet last summer, Greg has been tirelessly working to make the technical aspects of this venture become a reality. For this interview, Eric provides more interesting questions that give more clarity towards the CityDAO project. Greg shares his views and opinions about DAOs, NFTs, and the CityDAO project itself. He also offers some advice and recommendation to the CityDAO citizens and how they can contribute to this awesome project.

CityDAO is exploring making assets and governance digitally legible to unleash accessibility, interoperability, and opportunity. If you want to get more involved in this project, stay in touch on Twitter @CityDAO, and join the Discord! They have lots of interesting discussions happening around DAO structure, land rights and governance, urban planning, and more.

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.

Scott Fitsimones is the Founder of CityDAO and the Co-Founder and CTO of AirGarage. His previous working experiences include being a Production Engineering Intern at Facebook, Software Engineering Intern at CERN, and iOS Engineer at MobilBytes. Today, he is putting land on-chain at CityDAO and building better cities at AirGarage. Usually, Scott writes about cities, crypto, and mechanism design. He also believes in building things you want to exist and writes about the things you want to change.

CityDAO is building a network of assets on-chain, starting with a single parcel of land in Wyoming. Each parcel of land is an NFT that can be owned collectively by the DAO or by individuals. It is a DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, meaning it is managed by the community. It is also a DAO for decentralized asset ownership.

Oisin Lyons is from Ireland & he's one of the founding citizens of CityDAO. This introduction episode focuses on some of the key issues and topics being discussed around DAO's & topics within the CityDAO Discord. So what is CityDAO all about? CityDAO is exploring decentralized asset ownership on chain, starting with a piece of land in Wyoming. Each parcel of land is an NFT that can be owned collectively by the DAO collectively or by individuals. It is a DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, meaning it is managed by the community.

The goal of CityDAO is to be able to buy land all over the US and world. They are starting in Wyoming because of the state's new 2021 DAO law, which recognizes DAO governance of LLC corporations. Because LLCs can own land, this creates a powerful pathway for decentralized land ownership. If you want to get involved, check out their twitter @CityDAO, and join the Discord! They have lots of interesting discussions happening around DAO structure, land rights and governance, urban planning, and more.

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