An observation now that I’m in a few DAOs and channels: compared to a startup, it’s unclear what the priorities are and how progress is being made against those priorities.

Maybe that’s not the point, but strong believer in you are what you measure.

What are the perks of being in a DAO vs. Being a traditional Angel investor?

Lots of different versions. Most DAOs aren't VCs. Most are closer to companies that have funds to spend.

Some are just WhatsApp groups with a shared bank account.

Building getinboxzero.com and sharemint.xyz.

I also run a YouTube channel, "Learn from Open Source": youtube.com/elie2222 

Oh yes. I was curious of the answer. Also curious, what’s the most interesting you’ve done with a DAO?

There’s a DAO I joined and got promoted to the technical team. The structure is something like 4 founders. 12 contributors below that. 3 technical dept. 3 marketing. 3 finance. And 3 operations or something else.
Then there’s another 150 or so contributors below that which you buy in at.

I might be wrong about every penny spent but for the most part the funds of the dao were sent to an external agency to build a product for it. And the founders and 12 below are unpaid.

This is why I say it mostly functions as a company. The main decisions are by the founders at the top level. I help out where I can. But wouldn’t necessarily agree with the direction or products being built. But either way following along the experiment.

We’re talking a budget of a few hundred k. So there’s what to play with. And what’s nice compared to an nft collection or even token sale, the money is going to specific goals and it’s not a hundred k raised an founders disappear. The dao is spending the money towards building dao owned products.

Products in question are an nft collection and a launchpad.

All the money that got put in goes towards building products for the dao. They also want to raise money and launch an nft collection and people that hold the collection will be another level below. I don’t think anyone in the dao is being paid and all the money goes to external parties to build.