The Web3 Founder’s Playbook | Imran Khan, Qiao Wang, AllianceDAO

In this episode of Empire, Jason is joined by Qiao Wang and Imran Khan, core contributors at Alliance DAO (the Y Combinator of Web3). Alliance DAO is a Web3 startup accelerator whose portfolio includes 0x, dYdX, Paraswap, Synthetix and top Web3 protocols.
Qiao and Imran are former founders who now assist Web3's top entrepreneurs in building, launching and growing their products. As a result, the duo has a front-row seat to the latest trends and innovations in crypto. This episode is for you if you want to know what it takes to build a top Web3 product.
We discuss:
- how to think about tokenomics
- why product should come before community
- what tech stack developers are building on
- why Qiao recommends launching your product on Avalanche
- how to scale a team in Web3
- the top 3 things founders should think about
- why you shouldn't start a DAO, and much more!
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Referenced in the show:
Empire's previous episode with Qiao & Imran
tinyurl.com/bznjm8ub
Alliance DAO
alliance.xyz/
Qiao's "Common Pitfalls for Web3 Founders" post
/ 1503365524272689156
Imran's tweet thread on "leveraged CAC"
/ 1501247894325768194
Imran's tweet on a Robinhood acquisition
/ 1527353717741490178
Imran's tweet on DAO treasuries growing to $11B
/ 1517551697148747777
The Obol staking protocol
obol.tech/
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ParaSwap:
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00:00 Introduction
01:15 State of The Market
06:15 Is This Crypto's Last Cycle?
11:02 The Best Time To Launch A Product
12:27 Leveraged Customer Acquisition Cost
15:47 Don't start your company as a DAO
17:40 Paraswap Ad
18:47 Why do we even need DAOs?
21:04 Building community around the product
24:25 Scaling a team in Web3
26:33 The use case for Creator DAOs
30:00 How do builders choose which platform to build on?
35:20 Will talent flock to Ethereum L2s?
38:27 Web3 unit economics
42:16 Top 3 things founders should focus on
44:42 How to think about community
48:21 Is Coinbase undervalued?
49:37 Will Robinhood be acquired in 2022?
51:03 Coinbase vs FTX
51:34 Where is the NFT market headed?
54:46 Lido's future dominance
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[@Textras]

A very excellent well rounded convo.

[@itsme-le1bg]

I learned so much from this discussion. I have to listen a fe more times. Didn't really understand the use case for the DAO and what makes it different from traditional startup accelerators. Jason's questions at the end were brilliant, so much insight to be gained. Best podcast in crypto just got better.

[@alexNGMI]

Agreed, phenomenal topics

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