The RnDAO Podcast

Denis Kovalevich, a pioneer in venture studios and a leader in the field, shares insights on “The Rise of Venture Studios: A New Asset Class for Investors and Entrepreneurs.”

With over 20 years of experiencein innovation, technology, and startup creation, Denis co-founded echnoSpark, one of the first hardware venture studios in the world. TechnoSpark has launched 700+ startups in robotics, healthcare, clean energy, and more, with a remarkable 50% survival rate. 

In this episode, Denis explains:  

• What makes venture studios unique compared to accelerators and venture capital.  
  
  
• How venture studios create lasting value beyond individual startups.  
  
  
• Why they’re becoming a sustainable model for building and scaling businesses.  
  
  
• What this means for the future of investing and entrepreneurship.  
  
  

Whether you’re an investor, founder, or simply curious about innovation, this episode offers valuable insights into one of the most exciting trends in business today.

In this episode, James introduces Sociocracy 3.0, a flexible framework that helps organizations reduce unnecessary dependencies while promoting autonomy and collaboration. 

By adopting a dynamic set of practices, processes, and guidelines, teams can minimize waste, increase productivity, and foster a stronger sense of ownership and accountability. 

James explores how Sociocracy 3.0 supports effective work distribution, alignment, and resource optimization, while also emphasizing the importance of coordination to maintain coherence across teams. 

By leveraging distributed cognition and customizing systems to fit their unique needs, organizations can ensure their efforts are focused on what truly matters.

In this episode, our CollabTech-obsessed AI friends explore the exciting world of CollabTech and how it's transforming the future of work.

From innovative tools powered by Web3 to the rise of DAOs and decentralized teams, we discuss what these changes mean for collaboration and productivity. 

Whether you're a tech enthusiast or simply curious about the evolving work landscape, this conversation breaks down complex ideas into easy to understand insights. 

Listen to this episode as our friends explore how CollabTech is shaping a better work environment for everyone. 

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Listen to Anastasia Kalinina, co-founder and CEO of reState Foundation, and Hugo Mathecowitsch, founder of Tools for the Commons, as they explore the potential of peer-to-peer technologies and other frameworks that hold a promise for a truly decentralized internet to replace obsolete institutional frameworks and systems.

This presentation examine how regenerative open governance protocols are enabling both global and local cooperation. Through various examples, the discussion outline the current state and future possibilities in the realm of governance facilitated by these emerging technologies.

How can we create inclusive, empowering working environments for neurodivergent DAO contributors?

Listen to an Interesting talk with Lino, who has 14 years of experience running accelerators and communities.
Lino has deployed £25 million followed by £100 million and he is a two-time VC funded founder and was one of the first in crypto and now he's going to explore neurodivergence, particularly ADHD, within decentralized autonomous organizations in RnDAO talk series!

Within this hour, we discussed:

• ​demystify ADHD and discuss how it impacts the brain
• ​address the misconception that "everyone is a little bit ADHD"
• ​delve into why "neurospicy" individuals are drawn to DAOs
• ​hear Lino's personal insights from nine months of working in DAOs
• ​engage in interactive breakout sessions to share your experiences and discuss how to design working environments that WORK for those with ADHD

​ Don't miss this opportunity to learn about inclusivity in DAOs. Listen and enjoy!

Victor Alexiev, Global Head of Venture Incubation at Citi, blends entrepreneurial experience with transformative leadership to drive successful commercial product launches bridging traditional banking with modern technologies. His visionary leadership and talent development skills make him a respected speaker and leader in environments where entrepreneurial expertise is valued.

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During this episode, Victor shared his observations and experience on the evolution of venture building / venture incubation through the years.

The types of programs that exist and their relevant applicability in a variety of contexts.

​He also shared some case studies from his work with Obecto, Vision2Version and most recently, his role as Global Head of Venture Incubation at Citi, providing an overview of how Venture Building works (or doesn't) in a corporate context.

Listen and enjoy!

We had an an exciting talk with Tibet Sprague about the Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA).

CTA exists to facilitate collaboration, coordination, and community among platform designers, developers, and stewards who are committed to building social technology that benefits both people and planet. It is a decentralized alliance that works on the principles of wellbeing, co-creation, agency, justice, openness and emergence.

In this conversation Tibet discussed:

​the origins and development of the CTA
experiments in community governance and participatory budgeting
projects that have come out of CTA collaborations
his other main project Hylo: the Prosocial Coordination Platform for a Thriving Planet

​Tibet shared specific project examples including a dynamic, interoperable ecosystem mapping tool, Federated Authentication Network, a research tool for prosocial org entity structures, and more. For his own main project, connecting Hylo to an interoperable ecosystem of values aligned platforms and tools was one of the main reasons he helped jumpstart the CTA.

Sam Spurlin is a partner and first employee at The Ready, a future of work consultancy. Over the past eight years he has partnered with and advised many organizations on their journey toward more people positive, complexity conscious, and effective ways of working. He has worked with senior leaders and their teams across many organizations and industries in the Fortune 500. He led The Ready’s exploration into DAOs in late 2021 through early 2023. Prior to joining The Ready he consulted with David Allen on the updated edition of his bestselling book, Getting Things Done, and published with Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the future of work and positive psychology.
All organizations, even decentralized and autonomous ones, have “operating systems” that describe how they work and what they feel like to participate in. These operating systems are the foundational assumptions, principles, and practices that manifest in everything we might call “organizational culture” — and they can be designed. Using the OS Canvas as the primary lens, how and why are DAOs suffering from many of the same challenges traditional organizations face? What might the organizational operating system framework tell us DAOs may be uniquely situated to do better than traditional organizations? And what might it take to make that happen?

Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence in the Finance Division at the University of Colorado Boulder. Eric’s research and teaching is centered in the fields of law and economics and institutional and organizational analysis, which he applies to research questions in the development of rights along frontiers, the design and implementation of constitutions, and digital governance challenges with an emphasis on cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks. Eric also consults directly with numerous cryptocurrency networks and DAOs on their specific governance design challenges.

In that talk, Eric discussed canonical challenges in governance like representative losses, accommodation of conflict, Knightian uncertainty, and public goods provision to consider how these challenges were borne out in DAO governance. Eric drew upon both his academic publications and his years in digital governance design for cryptocurrency networks and DAOs alike.