Boys Club doesn’t have a DAO yet. That’s why I invited Parker Jay-Pachirat, one of its founding members, to do this interview. I wanted to hear how she’s building the community’s infrastructure to enable them to transition to a DAO.
Boys Club is a community of women, non-binary individuals, and anyone excited to drive inclusivity and a new kind of culture in web3.
Here are a few edited excerpts from this interview.
Andrew: Why do you need a DAO? (Timestamp 2:51)
Parker: I don’t believe that everything should be a DAO. A community should always come first. But we started making our way towards a DAO because our members were eager to get involved. They wanted to be more than just members of our community.
They had ideas for ways to build our movement. A DAO will allow us to have mutual upside and shared incentives.
Andrew: Boys Club has such a cool vibe. How can a community build that vibe better than a few tastemakers? (4:21)
Parker: Our core contributors all started by being community members. They had great ideas. They now own those ideas and execute them.
Andrew: For example? (5:34)
Parker: Two community members with strong product backgrounds created a product guild, which incubates and accelerates projects other members are building in the space.
Andrew: Tell me about Boys Club Consulting. (43:18)
Parker: Two of our members, Hilary Brown and Riyanka Ganguly, got together and created a consulting company that helps brands unlock the power of Web3.
Andrew: So this isn’t a big, chaotic chat group building things together. Your community picks projects and leaders it wants to support and those teams, or “guilds” as you call them, execute.
Parker: You nailed it.