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A warm welcome to today's /jobs AMA guest, @b3nnn 

Ben is currently the Head of DAO Talent at Pokt Network and previously led Talent at Aragon. In a past life, he worked in HR Programming at TikTok, EY, etc.

Reply with your questions for Ben here :)

come at me universe i am ready for anything 

Placed 100+ in crypto jobs. Found the gaps, fixing them. 3x grant-backed founder building @interestedfyi to reshape onchain hiring. Ex @ConsenSysMesh.

whats the most surprising difference between companies like EY and DAOs?

whats the most surprising similarity between the two?

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

great question! An important similarity is that people are generally values aligned between both. Painting companies as the "enemy" of DAOs is naive and unhelpful.. both generally have an optimistic worldview



Differences are maybe not that surprising but one important one is that most people can work at companies and (today) most people can't work at DAOs. 

DAOs attract and need a certain type of person. One day I hope they are for everyone but realistically a startup company is a better place to get similar experiences 

Yes there's all the extra complexity and overhead but I think most people can't work in a DAO because the guardrails around your own growth just don't exist.   A startup has more clarity that a lot of DAOs where you can learn about impact and responsibility without it being a darwinian experiment

with can't work you mean legally or structurally?

I feel like DAOs are like NGOs you have to truely be "blind" for the cause or a contractor to pull through all the overhead that exists (governance, community support, PR, navigate legal without company framework)