Community x Capital

Community x Capital

By Alexis Ohanian, Michael SidgmoreBusinessEntrepreneurshipInvesting
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Community x Capital episodes

  • The MVC (Minimum Viable Community) Episode
    From 776 launching their new venture fund with a diverse community of LPs and founders to incumbent financial institution Goldman Sachs running their own Clubhouse room, community is the fabric that brings us together.
    How can we understand the value of communities?
    In finance, we can no longer avoid community. People aggregate themselves and their views in ways that can change markets.
    In startups, we can no longer avoid community. Customers are more likely to engage with a company or product that they feel an affinity towards.
    How can companies learn from nation-state building of communities? After all, startups, like nation-states, have to tell stories - and create a history - that people learn from.
    Alexis was a history major and Michael was an international relations major, so they dive into the parallels between how communities are built by nation-states and by startups alike through storytelling.
    48 min
  • The New World - It's Coming Fast Episode
    Financializing signal? Monetizing engagement? Get ready for the new world. There’s no stopping it now with the creation of NFTs.
    Crypto has the potential to change the world by unlocking monetary freedom and giving creators control over their relationships with their communities and fans.
    It seems as if we’ve finally reached the point of the mainstreaming of crypto - people are transacting on platforms like Sorare in fiat while using crypto rails.
    We covered a lot of ground on this podcast from crypto to cards to counterfactuals.
    44 min
  • The Startup Cities Episode
    Startup cities in the age of online communities.
    With Miami taking up much of the conversation in startupland’s Twitterverse as it tries to brand itself the “capitol of capital,” we wanted to dive deeper into what it means to create a startup ecosystem in the age of online communities.
    What does it take to build a great startup ecosystem?
    What comes first - Community, which creates highly engaged networks of operators, or Capital, which brings the investors to fund promising new ideas?
    Why does reputation matter more than geography in the golden age of online identity?
    What about the strength of weak ties? Can people build the same level of trust offline as they can online, particularly when it comes to investing money into people and companies?
    34 min
  • The Power of Communities Episode
    On this holiday weekend, we want to release a special episode about the power of community. Communities have the power to shape movements.
    This episode was recorded a few weeks ago. Our recording was scheduled for 5 pm ET on the day of the George Floyd verdict. At 4:55 pm ET, the George Floyd verdict was announced.
    We felt that it was only appropriate to start with the news and see where it took us.
    From the Colin Kaepernick jerseys hanging on Alexis’ office wall to the European Super League, we covered a number of topics:
    * How online communities are as, if not more, meaningful to people than offline communities.
    * How sports teams like Angel City FC are changing the game with community-building.
    * How the logo tattoo KPI can help companies and brands know when they have Super Fans.
    * How the movement can hold companies and brands accountable.
    * How the short-lived European Super League was the manifestation of the tension between Community x Capital.
    42 min
  • The Venture Capital Episode
    Venture Capital is changing before our eyes.
    What does it mean to be a venture capitalist in today’s world?
    Is the industry of venture immune to the tsunami of software and technology? Or do VCs need to innovate their own businesses in order to be the best performing investors?
    How can software transform how VCs service their companies? What’s the balance between VC as a services business vs. VC as a product business?
    We talk about all this and more on the latest episode of Community x Capital. And, of course, we had to start with a hard question!
    34 min
  • The Cards Episode
    Cards are about community. Cards are about capital. Cards are about culture. We talk about all of these things and more on today's episode.
    31 min
  • The Dogecoin Episode
    “If this is not the epitome of Community x Capital, I don’t know what is.”
    What is the value of memes? Of money? Of mastery of a subject in an online world?
    On one hand, as long as a big enough community of people believe in something, it can have value.
    On the other hand, if something has no fundamental value - or if the community no longer believes in its value - then what is it worth?
    Listen to hear more about memes, money, and mastery.
    32 min
  • The Coinbase Episode
    This episode opens with: “Coinbase, is that a thing?” Should Coinbase go into traditional financial services or should they go deeper down the crypto rabbit hole? Alexis says why not just build the new world order? Michael says wait, what about institutions?
    36 min

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If money is what makes the world go around, it's community that keeps it turning.