Operations
Running organizations: teams, budgets, treasury, settlement and the back office. My work here: operations for Sky’s capital-allocation entities and the rules that ran MakerDAO’s contributor teams.
Work
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MakerDAO: Contributor Rules and the SES Incubator
The rules for how MakerDAO’s contributor teams were created, funded and held to account, and an incubator for new teams: eight teams, four voted in as independent Core Units.
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Operations for Sky’s Capital-Allocation Entities
The operations behind Sky’s capital-allocation entities, and later the operating team of a $2.5B capital-allocation mandate.
Talks
2025
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Sky Community Calls
Calls Host
20+ Sky Community Calls, Feb to Aug 2025.
2022
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Devcon 6
Panel Panelist: “Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling: How Do We Fund Community and Ecosystem Growth”
2021
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LisCon
Talk Speaker: “How to Scale a DAO”
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HAUS Party Live (DAOhaus)
Talk Speaker, with the SES Co-Founder: “MakerDAO SES Introduction”
2020
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MakerDAO Community Collateral Onboarding Calls
Calls Host
A weekly open call where projects pitched their assets as collateral for Dai. Presenters in 2020 included Aave, Gemini, Balancer, Uniswap, Curve, Crypto.com, Centrifuge, Set Protocol and Enzyme. 14 calls hosted, Sep to Dec 2020, with 9+ founder-level guests.
Notable Calls (9)
- 23 Sep 2020 · Call #9 Aave (Marc Zeller and Stani Kulechov) and Gemini (Tyler Winklevoss)
- 7 Oct 2020 · Call #10 Balancer (Fernando Martinelli) and tBTC (Matt Luongo)
- 14 Oct 2020 · Call #11 RenVM and Uniswap (Hayden Adams)
- 21 Oct 2020 · Call #12 EURS (Gregory Klumov) and Crypto.com
- 22 Oct 2020 · Special Edition Kleros Fellowship (Federico Ast)
- 28 Oct 2020 · Call #14 Curve Finance (Michael Egorov)
- 18 Nov 2020 · Call #16 Set Protocol and Index Coop
- 9 Dec 2020 · Call #20 Enzyme, formerly Melon Protocol (Mona El Isa)
- 16 Dec 2020 · Call #21 Real-world assets: the 2020 wrap-up, with three asset originators