web2.5: Recent Episodes
domo
A show for current and future crypto: founders, operators, and contributors.
We don't talk enough about how hard it is to build, run, and scale an organization in crypto. Learn the behind-the-scenes truth from guests who talk about hiring, legal, tax, accounting, finance, operations, and more.
Hosted by Grace, cofounder & ceo of domo (domo.so) Follow us on Twitter @domodotso
In today's episode, we're taking a behind-the-scenes look into the complex world of crypto taxes. I welcome two talented tax professionals, both from Blockchain & Digital Assets groups at their respective firms. We have Han Xin Lim, Tax Manager at Deloitte, and Mario Enrique Sabatés, Senior Associate at RSM. We discuss crypto taxes (and how to do them) so that you are compliant and can avoid penalties.
Show notes:
- Background
- Tax and business are inseparable
- Crypto accounting industry
- Guidance, or lack thereof
- Tax season
- Advice
Learn more:
LinkedIn: Han Xin Lim | Mario Enrique Sabatés
Website: Deloitte Blockchain Resources | RSM US Blockchain and Digital Assets | RSM US Digital Assets: Latest Insights and Resources for Financial Services
Learn more about WEB2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
Youtube: domo
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In today's episode, we welcome Winston Zhang, co-founder at Cega Finance. Cega Finance provides high-yield products for DeFi users, powered by exotic options. We reflect on Cega’s company building journey from late 2021, to today, and how they’ve navigated company financial operations along the way.
Show notes:
- What is Cega? Who is it for?
- DoorDash, Orbiter, and Cega
- TradFi vs. DeFi
- User research vs. competitor research
- Company operations
- Cega's one year with domo!
- Reflection
Learn more:
Twitter: @cega_fi | @zhangwins
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cega-fi/
Website: https://www.cega.fi/ | Historic Performance of Cega Vaults | Supercharger Vault
Learn more about WEB2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
Youtube: domo
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In today's episode, we're talking about how to run crypto payroll, give people W2s, direct deposit fiat into employee bank accounts, and so much more. My co-founder Sol and I welcome Joshua Lapidus. He’s a Founding Steward at Opolis, a digital employment cooperative, ETHDenver Steward and recently, the Sr. Partnerships Lead at Mantle.xyz.
Show notes:
- Background
- Politics
- Cooperatives
- Employment compliance
- How Opolis delivers employment compliance to members
- What is Opolis?
- What does Opolis enable?
- Who is Opolis’ customer?
- Where is Opolis available (geographically)?
- Processing $60-70m annual payroll
Learn more:
Twitter: @opolis | @0xJoshuaSL
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opolis/
Website: https://opolis.co/
Learn more about WEB2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
Youtube: domo
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In this episode, Sol and I welcome Anj Arrieta, our Executive Assistant from Athena. Athena connects high-achieving professionals all over the world with best-in-class Philippines-based executive assistants. We talk about our experience of getting an EA as our first full-time hire, and how, with the help of Athena, she’s given us a ton of leverage while running the company.
Show notes:
- Delegation experiences
- Utilizing today’s technology
- More than calendar and inbox management
- Trusting and being trusted
- The Athena network
- How Tiktok brought Anj to Athena
- Executive assistants as partners
Skip the waitlist and get your first month free: athenago.me/grace-guo
Learn more:
Twitter: @athenago
Tiktok: @AthenaCareersPH
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/athenago/mycompany/
Website: https://www.athenago.com/
Learn more about WEB2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
Youtube: domo
The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal, financial, or tax advice; all information, content, and materials made available by this podcast are for general informational purposes only.
We do work with Athena, but we are not being paid by Athena to do this podcast episode.
In this episode, I welcome Kevin Leuthardt, Head of Finance at Safe. We talk about what it's like to be a crypto CFO, his experience at three impressive crypto projects, finance recruitment, and hiring.
Show notes:
- Arweave, KYVE, and Safe
- Risk management
- 30, 60, 90-day plan
- Day in the life of a crypto CFO
- Hiring and recruitment
Safe, previously called Gnosis Safe, is a smart contract wallet on Ethereum and EVM chains. They offer multisig controls (ex. multiple owners of the wallet, M out of N signatures needed to complete a transaction) and more for on-chain self-custody. There are $70bn USD value of assets secured through Safe today.
Arweave is a decentralized data storage and archiving platform. KYVE is a decentralized data validation and indexing platform.
Learn more:
Twitter: @KLeuthardt | @safe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-leuthardt-b2461379/
Website: https://safe.global/
Learn more about WEB2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
Youtube: domo
The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal, financial, or tax advice; all information, content, and materials made available by this podcast are for general informational purposes only.
In this episode, Sol and I welcome Derek Hsue, cofounder of Reverie. Reverie's goal is to help DAOs grow. Derek is also the host of the popular crypto podcast, I Pledge Allegiance. We dig into the history of decentralized governance, the state of DAO governance today, and the organizational problems we need to solve.
Show notes:
- From Reddit to Reverie
- Onchain vs offchain governance experiments
- Streamlining processes - friend or foe when it comes to governance?
- The most important thing DAOs need
- Participation vs contribution
- DAOs and VC?
- TLDR on Cosmos
- The best way to learn is by doing
Learn more:
Twitter: @derek_hsue, @hi_reverie
https://www.reverie.ooo
https://www.reverie.ooo/podcasts
Learn more about web2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
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In this episode, I welcome Brandon Ferrick, co-founder and GC at B+J Studios, formerly Sullivan and Cromwell attorney, and former GC of Injective Labs. We have a down-to-earth chat about what it actually means for teams to work with lawyers in web3.
Show notes:
- What do general counsels do?
- Why do teams need one and when should they hire one?
- Fundraising for a web3 startup
- An open source, one-page SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens)
- What legal questions have we yet to answer as an industry?
- Biggest legal pitfalls you've seen in web3
- What's it like to work with a lawyer and how do you make sure it's a good fit?
- "Air cover" and token memos
- How do you stay up-to-date on crypto legal and regulatory topics?
- If you're a lawyer and you want to get into web3, people are really nice - keep asking them how you can get involved and help
Learn more:
Twitter: @BrandonFerrick
https://www.sec.gov/finhub
https://www.lexdao.coop/
https://www.lexpunk.army/
https://github.com/saft-project
https://github.com/BranDAOn/OP-SAFT
https://cupcake.com/
Learn more about web2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
EP05 - Taxes, Corporate Structures, and Business Impact - a conversation with Linda Pfatteicher, Tax Partner at Dentons
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In this episode, I welcome Alan Scott, co-founder of Railgun, a privacy and anonymity system built directly on-chain on Ethereum from which you can interact directly with decentralized exchanges, lending platforms, and popular smart contract applications.
Show notes:
- What is privacy, why is it important, and why should people care about it?
- How do we think about the trade-offs that come with privacy?
- The role of public servants, regulators, and law enforcement in the fight for privacy
- Cash vs Crypto
- Zero Knowledge and Privacy
- Monero, Zcash, Hermes, Aztec, Mina
- Apple, encryption, the crypto wars
- Is a person one or many identities?
- "I didn't want people to see that I had been rugged"
- Railgun and privacy
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Learn more about Railgun:
Twitter: @RAILGUN_Project | @tsu_kareta
Telegram: Church of Railgun - @railgun_privacy
Website: https://railgun.org/
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal, financial, or tax advice; all information, content, and materials made available by this podcast are for general informational purposes only.
In this episode, I welcome Lucas Baker, Research and Investments at Jump Crypto. Lucas thinks deeply about what people are building, what needs to be built, and how we navigate the technology development that drives society's transition to its next phase.
Show notes:
- DAO Tooling - fleeting or here to stay?
- Does a DAO have to be a business?
- Bespoke services vs SaaS for today's crypto finance and operations challenges
- What level of process should a team have?
- Best examples of a crypto team solving their finance and operations?
- What are the most common bad habits?
- What is most surprising about crypto finance and operations?
- Transparency, privacy in operations
- Legal entities and structuring a global crypto organization
Learn more about DXdao:
Twitter: @jump_ | @SansGravitas
Website: https://jumpcrypto.com/ | https://jumpcrypto.com/writing/
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
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In this episode, I welcome John Kelleher, Development Coordinator at DXdao, a highly scalable (and decentralized) collective focused on the DeFi ecosystem. As one of the earliest contributors at DXdao, John has both a comprehensive view on the evolution of DXdao since Day 1, and steady views on why we should / how we can build a decentralized economy.
Show notes:
- DAO and reputation first, token and money later
- Voting with reputation, not token
- Governance 2.0 means voting power from both reputation and token
- DXdao's decentralized products: Swapr, Carrot, and Governance
- Finding PMF (product-market fit)
- Similarities and differences working at a company vs a DAO
- Hardcore decentralization philosophy
- No legal entity vs internet-native entity standards
Learn more about DXdao:
Twitter: @DXdao | @jpkcambridge
Website: https://dxdao.eth.limo/
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
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https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
In this episode, we revisit first principles and narrate a must-read - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto. This momentous paper, published in 2008, proposes a system that replaces the need for central authorities in facilitating transactions. These ideas form the foundation for the modern crypto and decentralization movement.
Learn more about web2.5 and domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://domo.so
In this episode, I welcome Evan Sohn, Chairman and CEO of Recruiter.com, an on-demand recruiting platform. Evan shares insights into the current jobs landscape, recruiting from both the company and candidate perspective, and how to hire your dream team.
Show notes:
- Big shifts in the hiring environment?
- How does a company recruit successfully in a job-hopper economy?
- Hire someone for 24 months
- How do you set people up for success?
- Personal network, recruiter, job board - when to use which?
- How should a candidate navigate the job-hopper economy?
- Startups and equity
Learn more:
https://www.recruiter.com/
https://www.crypto.recruiter.com/
https://www.start.recruiter.com/
evan@recruiter.com
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal, financial, or tax advice; all information, content, and materials made available by this podcast are for general informational purposes only.
In this episode, I welcome Linda Pfatteicher, Tax Partner at Dentons, a global legal practice. Linda emphasizes the importance of working with a tax attorney as early on in your company journey as possible if you want to execute an effective business strategy and avoid future restructuring.
Show notes:
- What is a Tax Attorney and what do you do?
- What's the true cost in dollars & hours of fixing inefficient structures?
- International structures and global, remote teams
- Foreign entities that are US entities for tax purposes
- Token-based compensation, 83b
- Quickly moving industry, slowly moving IRS
Learn more:
https://www.dentons.com/en/linda-pfatteicher
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
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In this episode, I welcome Amber Welch, Senior Manager at Graphite Financial, a company that provides accounting services and outsourced CFO support for startups. Amber leads the crypto accounting practice, and shares insights into why crypto accounting is so hard, what limited guidance we have in the US, and how crypto teams can work with accounting experts to get a clear picture of their company's financial health.
Show notes:
- What is crypto accounting?
- Impairment, realized, and unrealized
- Think like an auditor
- How often do companies get audited?
- Treatment for NFTs
- The difficulty in accounting for crypto clients
- Setting expectations
- Do you want to get into crypto accounting?
Learn more:
amber.welch@graphitefinancial.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberwelch1229/
https://graphitefinancial.com/
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
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In this episode, I welcome Remy Hall, Operations at 0xPARC, a research and development foundation focused on the application layer for Ethereum and other decentralized technologies. Remy shares insights into how you don't need an engineering background to get into crypto and how to contribute strategically and substantially to teams building at the cutting edge of the web3 industry.
Show notes:
- Getting into crypto with a non-technical background
- What is it like to wear many hats at an early stage startup?
- How do you succeed in something you've never done before?
- Philosophy and strategy driving 0xPARC's corporate structure
- Building innovative organizations when you're between a rock and a hard place
- Getting involved in crypto communities and events
Learn more:
https://0xparc.org | https://zkga.me (Dark Forest)
Twitter: @0xPARC | @remyjhall | @latticexyz
https://www.ethuniversity.org
https://hacklodge.org
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
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In our first episode, I welcome three friends from Orca.so, the top decentralized exchange on Solana. Ori (Cofounder), Kiko (Growth Lead), and Thazin (Ops Lead) share some of the story behind their success and how they grew from a team of 2 to 10+ in 12 months.
Along the way, their biggest pains to solve for were/are: legal, tax, financial operations, accounting
Show notes:
- How do you know when to invest in your first ops leader?
- What are the immediate priority areas where ops will add value?
- A note on fundraising, tokens, legal, finance, and a project's future
- What makes it really hard to navigate crypto operations in particular?
- Orca's perspective on team
Learn more about Orca:
Twitter: @orca_so | @oritheorca| @kayzizzle
Website: https://www.orca.so
Messari: Orca: Solana's Human-Friendly Automated Market Maker
Learn more about web2.5 and Domo:
Twitter: @guocamole | @solirvine | @reir | @domodotso
Website: https://www.domo.so/
The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal, financial, or tax advice; all information, content, and materials made available by this podcast are for general informational purposes only.