Griff Green: Giveth – Creating the New Economic Model of Giving
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We're joined by Griff Green, one of the founders at Giveth. The organization, which emerged out of the ashes of the DAO, aims to create a better model for charitable work. Operating as a Dapp, Giveth aims to bring new governance models in the nonprofit space. The goal is to create better incentives for donors and charity workers, in all types of social good projects.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Griff's background as a gold-hodling digital nomad
- His time spent at Slock.it and his involvement in the aftermath of the DAO collapse
- How traditional charity organizations work
- The problems these organizations face and how funds get allocated
- The Giveth backstory and why the team chose to start the project
- Incentive alignment in the charity space
- The use of bonding curves and continuous organizations to fund charity projects
- The project's roadmap and future
Episode links:
- Giveth website
- Rewriting the Story of Human Collaboration
- Griff's talk at EthCC
- Crowdfunding the Commons
- The Future of Giving is Crowdfunding the Commons
- Deep Dive: Augmented Bonding Curves
- Episode 282 with Simon de la Rouviere
- The Giveth blog
- Giveth on GitHub
- Join the Giveth community
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This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/284
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