History of the swarm including tech, problems, solutions, legal woes, and the new digital collaborative organization model.

2. Joel Dietz, CEO
668 High Street, Palo Alto
joel@swarm.fund, www.swarm.fund

3. All you need to know about Blockchain on one slide

4. Welcome to a DAOist world

6. P2P Foundation writings (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-
instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:p2pfoundation.net+joel+dietz)
Ethereum Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/)
Distributed Governance Whitepaper (https://github.com/fractastical/distributed-governance/blob/master/whitepaper.md)
Decentralized Autonomous Society (https://www.facebook.com/groups/579940655425355/, 1100 members)
Crowdfunding (http://evergreenthoughts.quora.com/Cryptocurrency-Crowdfunding-Problems-and-Potential)
“Coinify” (koinify.com)
“Cryptoequity,” community Network (Swarm, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=664071)
Comiccoin (http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-comic-goes-sale-following-successful-crowdfunding/)
“Remember, remember”
Harvard summit (http://www.coindesk.com/token-security-research-analyzes-blockchain-us-law/)
DCO implementation (http://www.coindesk.com/swarm-targets-blockchain-governance-platform-pivot/)
History

7. Lack of good projects
Legal
Lack of accountability
High marketing costs
BTC drop
Problems
Bad economics

8. Governance
DCO model
Usability
Solutions
Decentralized due diligence

9. - legal contract describing governance
- structured as “partnership”
- voting tech
- automated asset issuance
- project page
- distribution
- sale
DCO package

10. Good!
- broad engagement
- large community
- values based
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Bad
- enthusiasm levels vary over time
- can be scary to ecosystem (i.e. too disruptive)
- most crowdfunding campaigns fail (~40% success rate on Kickstarter)
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Ugly!
- hard to do follow on funding
- budgeting on asset that fluctuates in price
Lessons Learned

11. 42*2 Projects

12. Project Mayhem*