Organizing work spaces with Alex Poon of CharmVerse

In this episode, the yWhales team speak with Alex Poon, Co-Founder and CEO of CharmVerse,  a Web3 operations platform that brings together onboarding, bounty management, proposals, tasks, and data repositories in one place. Alex discusses what inspired CharmVerse and how the platform handles docs, tasks, bounties, proposals, and votes. He also discusses how CharmVerse supports a DAO and why it’s 100% open source.

 

About Guests

Alex Poon is the Co-Founder and CEO of CharmVerse, a Web3 operations platform. He is a 3X VC-backed founder.  He was the co-founder of AI startups x.ai and Visual Revenue. Both companies were acquired. Earlier in his career, he built software for unmanned aerial vehicles. Alex received his MBA from Columbia Business School. He also holds an MS and BS degree in Electrical Engineering. Alex is an organizational design nerd, always experimenting with new ways to power the future of work.

 

You’ll learn about:

• CharmVerse, DAO operations platform that handles docs, tasks, bounties, proposals, and votes
• How the platform shines at the intersection between productivity and Web3
• Some of the biggest challenges DAOs are facing in 2022
• The value of building a technology that serves a community
• How CharmVerse is 100% open source on GitHub

 

Resources: 

Connect with Alex Poon: LinkedIn | Twitter

Connect with yWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter | LinkedIn

CharmVerse: Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Discord | GitHub

 

Timestamps

[01:52] Intro to Alex

[08:50] AI use

[10:13] DAO

[11:11] CharmVerse

[13:08] How do we support a DAO

[14:40] Barriers to entry in Web3

[17:21] Importance of communities

[20:48] Onboarding process

[23:18] Where CharmVerse is now

[24:20] Web3 ecosystem

[33:48] Success stories

[37:42] NFTs

[40:16] Utility vs Security

[42:42] Open Source

[43:55] Highlighting another project excited about - Guild.xyz

[45:52] Wallets

[49:30] How to contact Alex

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.