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In this episode, Tim is joined by Christina Garnett, Principal Marketing Manager, Offline Community and Advocacy at Hubspot. She is also the Founder, Marketing Strategist, and Consultant at Marketing Media Maven LLC in Roanoke, VA. Due to her dedication and grit, she was ranked among the top 100 CMA in VA. She uses her experience in teaching and counseling to help entrepreneurs build their businesses by teaching them how to do their own marketing and promote their products and services. She loves the voice that social media can grant people and adores Twitter.

In this episode of DAO Talks, Tim is joined by Stefan George and Marcos Nunes, Founders of Gnosis Pay, the first Decentralized Payment Network (DPN), removing the barriers between traditional and decentralized finance (DeFi). With backgrounds in tech and payments, Stefan and Marcos offer a unique perspective on decentralized finance and Web3.

In this episode of DAO Talks, Tim is joined by Rahul Sethuram, the Co-Founder and CTO of Connext. Connext is an interoperability protocol that enables fast, fully-trustless communication between blockchains that’s aimed at developers looking to build secure bridges and other natively cross-chain applications. As for Rahul, he describes himself as an Ethereum developer, game theory enthusiast, physics nerd, and occasional sleeper.

In this episode of DAO Talks, Tim is joined by Philipp Zentner, CEO and Founder of LI.FI, a groundbreaking platform that aims to aggregate and abstract DeFi infrastructure across multiple blockchains. A true pioneer in the field, Philipp brings a fresh perspective to the world of decentralized finance and the web3 ecosystem.

In this episode of the DAO Talks podcast, host Tim Delhaes sits down with Ivo Georgiev, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambire, the visionary web3 company behind the revolutionary self-custodial smart contract wallet, Ambire Wallet. Ambire was launched in 2017 after a crowdfunding campaign that raised 40,000 ETH ($12 million) in under eight hours. Their aim is to make self-custody easy and secure for everyone.

In this episode, Tim is accompanied by Will Papper, the Co-Founder of Syndicate. Syndicate is a decentralized investing protocol and social network that's transforming how the world creates value. Simply put, Will’s DAO knowledge is second to none. His DAO story began with him investing $10, which he got for signing up to Coinbase, into the Ethereum presale. And he has been fascinated with DAOs ever since.

For the first episode of 2023, Tim is joined by Frédéric Chesnais, the former CEO of Atari. He is now the Founder and CEO of Crypto Blockchain Industries (CBI), where Frédéric and his team are creating AlphaVerse, a gateway to many metaverses.

For the final episode of 2022, Tim is joined by Gregory Di Prisco, the former Head of Business Development at MakerDAO, one of the oldest, most innovative and biggest DeFi projects, with roots that go back to BitShares. Greg is a man of many talents and a particular passion for protocols.

In this episode, Tim is accompanied by Sam Huber, the Founder and CEO at LandVault, a metaverse real estate company focused on helping brands establish a presence in blockchain-based platforms such as Sandbox and Decentraland.

In this episode, Tim is joined by Don Gossen, the Founder & CEO of Nevermined, a web3 company that provides tools to read, write and own your digital assets.

In this episode, Tim is joined by Alexei Falin, Co-Founder and CEO of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create and sell digital collectibles secured with blockchain.

In this episode, Tim is joined by Michael Mazur, the COO at Colu, a fintech start-up that fosters urban livability and economic prosperity on a local level. By connecting and engaging local governments, local businesses, and citizens, Colu’s objective is to create a better city for the people, by the people.

In this episode, Tim is joined by James Young, from Collab.Land and Abridged. Collab.Land a digital concierge for tokenized communities and a pioneer of the token gating system. It was created by Abridged, a platform that aims to give everyone, including non-coders, access to building applications using blockchain technology. James has over a decade of experience in the tech industry, having previously worked as a game developer consultant and Chief Technology Officer.

In this episode, Tim is joined by metaverse expert Hrish Lotlikar, the Co-founder and CEO of SuperWorld, to discuss how technology is bringing together our physical and virtual lives. SuperWorld is an augmented reality virtual platform that allows users and brands to create, discover and monetize content.

This time, Tim is joined by Alexander Salnikov, the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create and sell digital collectibles secured with blockchain.

Tim Delhaes is joined by Novell Loh and Amy Soon, the Co-founders of Blu3 DAO. Earlier this year, the sisters formed the DAO in order to empower women to achieve financial freedom through learning, exploring and building their careers in the Web3 space.

Spencer is a product manager for DAOhaus, and a RaidGuild contributor. During his Web3 travels, he's noticed that there are usually 2 kinds of people in DAOs - those that dip their finger in multiple projects, and those who focus on one project only.

A short 3 minute interview with the host, Tim Delhaes, to give you an overview and the talks to come.

Former community manager of TheDao, co-founder at Giveth.io and CommonsStack. He is a crypto evangelist that holds the first ever master's degree on blockchain. Passionate about building software to support the growth of decentralized communities especially when they are non-profit causes.

Design Thinking for Blockchain and Social Impact projects for Ethereum. Product + Design + Spacetime. Currently a Dungeon Master for MetaCartel.

MetaDreamer realized very early on while mining Bitcoins during high school, that with DAOs, organizations can be used for the greater good. He's active across many of them, including TheMetaFactory, where he produces "digi-physical" goods.

StarPause is an electronic musician and producer who sells NFTs at his concerts, who's been known to conduct DAO workshops in beach cabanas. As a project manager for AstroDAO, the NEAR Protocol and founder of the arts nonprofit CODAME, he's realized that DAOs and NFTs are so easy to understand, that even a drunk person can make one.

Joshua Lapidus is a former Web2-er. He helped Lyft to get to their IPO and then he was let go His exit from Lyft convinced him that an organization's success should be shared with employees using incentives and tokenomics.

A former gamer, ”Nintendo Nick” aka “Nintynick,”is working as an alchemist at RaidGuild. He's also founded a DAO called EvenGov, trying to build a playbook for traditional organizations to progressively decentralize into a DAO.

Toronto-based Mark is passionate about a lot, but 2 things stand out for him: Skiing and how he can help communities to create legal entities that allows to distribute ownership and incentives with its members and creators. Mark believes that not every DAO has to be focused on Crypto and Web3. Instead, DAOs should democratize access and the power of the tools.

From dreaming about being a pharmacist to becoming an art teacher, to participating in the Occupy Brazil movement, and ending up as an illustrator for a Brazilian comedy/pornography show aimed at taxi/truck drivers, Elco’s journey into DAOs defies explanation but makes for a great story.

Diving deep into Crypto early on, Victor is looking to make DeFi accessible to everyone. After losing money in crypto, then earning some of it back, he realized that stablecoins offered ways to invest, save, and earn yield.

Adrien has been a songwriter, touring musician, artist manager, and record label owner. In fact, he’s done pretty much everything in the music business except get his royalties on time.

Julian started off building in the open Web2 space building idea behind RSS feeds. While doing this, however, he realized that the web, as it existed, was too limiting, and relied too much on Silicon Valley, and multiple passwords.

With a background in math, magic, psychology, film, and design, Andrej is the founder behind DeepWork - a design firm that works with both Web2/Web3 organizations, building what he calls “containers for people” - teams packed with specialized individuals, that are sent to clients when needed. Only working 4 hours a day, he says life should be about finding your personal freedom and doing meaningful things while providing a service.

He’s a former biophysicist who’s living in Sydney. Originally studying quantum computing hardware, he stumbled upon the blockchain, open source, and the idea of “crazy internet money” and got obsessed with Web3.

With Kolektivo, Ruben's working on Regenerative Finance. Somewhat similiar to DeFi but it takes nature and climate into account to tokenize natural assets to back community currencies. This means that the value of a currency is linked to the health of your ecosystem.

Kevin is a Danish Peruvian first-time founder that grew up in Spain and now lives in

Based in Moscow, Egor is a co-founder of XDAO and Anna is the CMO. Together, they’re figuring out how to manage money on the blockchain.

On this episode, host Tim Delhaes is joined by Eric Mack, the Co-founder of JournoDAO. Eric is an experienced journalist who's seeking to upgrade journalism with the help of Web3 tools.

Eric is an architect at Dora Factory- a DAO-as-a-Service infrastructure for on-chain governance, and the founder/CEO of DoraHacks -

A former chef, Daniel learned early on in his career that the people doing all the work in the kitchen, have great ideas that are seldom ever heard This led him on a journey in organizational design, where he discovered Web3 and DAOs.

Yalor Mewn enjoys traveling and networking like no other; which gives him the opportunity to share his experiences with communities and DAOs all over the world.