Best of Abridged #10
Student Capital DAO, Collab.Land, and links!.. keep a lookout for our new brand direction.
Hello Dear Subscribers,
This newsletter is one of the most exciting and action-packed updates for our company to date. Please buckle into your flight seat and prepare for take off.
Abridged Announcements
Tomorrow will be a historic day for humanity and Abridged
Tomorrow SpaceX will be the first private company to launch astronauts into space, and it will also be the first time in nearly a decade that a human mission to space is taking off from US soil.
Abridged launches into new frontiers
Just as SpaceX is reaching new heights in space exploration, Abridged is also launching into new frontiers of making the Web3 usable by all with a new brand direction. We will release our inspiration behind tomorrow in sync with the launch of the SpaceX rocket.
Student Capital DAO
On top of this exciting new product we’re developing, our cofounder Eric Chung recently revealed an initiative he’s been building at USC called Student Capital DAO. He integrated this into the smart contract course he teaches (the first of its kind). Read more here!
Collab.Land
We’ve had a few sleepless nights this past week, in a great way! Our team has been extremely focused on building products with a business model in mind. While we still want to encourage others to use the Abridged SDK, we built a more consumer facing DAO Ops system for the Hack Money hackathon, Collab.Land.
The Links
Future of Work & the Web
DAO Ops as explained by Eric Chung
One of my college professors, Dr. Michael Munger, frequently says that the solution to nearly every organizational problem rests in “reducing transaction costs”. DAO’s have the capability to achieve this goal at unforeseen levels in human history.
Developer Conferences (such as Microsoft Build) are moving online to address changing needs of the global digital workforce.
Check out the “2020: The Year of the DAO” Panel from #ETHDenver.
Patreon’s growth is exploding!
Explore HelpDAO and the important lessons they learned about the Crypto UX.
Cameo is giving minor celebrities a voice and a groundbreaking chance to monetize.
Start-Ups & Innovation
“This Week in Start-ups” is a phenomenal channel that provides great value for any start-up. This week’s episode provides some unique insight into the future of no-code.
Fuel Labs is launching Reddit Cash!
Epic Games is rapidly becoming one of the most popular and important companies in the world.
Facebook’s Libra is getting a rebrand
Slack vs. Discord vs. Discourse. What's the difference?
Meet the fascinating man who sold his fate to investors at $1 a share.
A revolutionary stock exchange has launched entirely built by culture
Food for Thought
Check out the final edition of the first Wired Blog “Beyond the Beyond” where Bruce Sterling examines how blog writing has changed the Internet.
Joe Rogan just sold away his entire future for a bargain.
“You don’t know what the end product will look like. But you can get a sense of their shipping cadence—how often they ship updates and new code—and that’s perhaps the best predictor of a company’s success.” Read more about the importance of shipping cadence here.
Have a great weekend!
~The Abridged Team