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Introducing Circle 3.0: A new era for branded communities.

🎙️What does it take to build a franchise in venture? Join @joannaruppuc, Managing Director of PE at the University of Chicago, on a new ep of the Origins Podcast as she explores w/ co-hosts @nchirls & @beezer232… 👉What sets top-tier VC firms apart 👉 Strategies for emerging managers to achieve long-term success 👉The differences between endowments and foundations 👉How the University of Chicago’s endowment approaches investment in both large and small funds 👉The effects of recent surges in VC funding on market valuations and investment trends 👉 And the debut of Nick’s new fund with an IRL evaluation from two institutional LPs 🎧 Links to listen below. #OriginsPodcast #OpenLP

This week on the #OriginsPodcast, we peeled back the layers of endowment investing with @joannaruppuc, Managing Director of Private Equity at the University of Chicago. Links to listen below👇

Today, we're announcing the next step forward in onchain governance: The Tally Protocol. The Tally Protocol fully actualizes the value of the systems that token holders own and participate in. The Tally Protocol unlocks the economic potential of governance tokens by providing a liquidity layer for governance staking and restaking, while optimizing the distribution of voting power to drive economic security back to blockchain protocols. The Tally Protocol ✤ Creates a smart contract layer that allows DAO token holders to mint Tally Liquid Staked Tokens (tLSTs), which make it easy to earn rewards while maintaining voting power and unlocking additional yield opportunities elsewhere. ✤ Enables governance restaking. Users can stake their governance tokens with Tally and receive a tLST in return that can be deposited in restaking systems. The voting power associated with the governance token remains active. ✤ Increases DAO security. Even the largest DAOs today are at risk of attacks due to low participation in governance. The Tally Protocol reactivates voting power held dormant in DeFi smart contracts and centralized exchanges by returning undelegated voting power to the DAO for redistribution. Undelegated tokens staked in the Tally Protocol are also returned to the DAO for redistribution. This way, DAOs can maintain control over their own security while enhancing token utility. ✤ Incentivizes effective governance. The Tally Protocol ensures token holders no longer have to choose between governance and financial utility. By requiring token holders to delegate to an active participant to earn staking rewards, voting power remains with active DAO voters, enhancing security against malicious attacks and preventing passive governance. ✤ Sustainably incentives DAO delegates. The Tally Protocol creates a fair and transparent mechanism for rewarding active delegates. The modularity of the protocol allows DAOs to experiment with new mechanisms and designs for compensation. Tally is leveraging its deep expertise, experience, and partnerships to bring the liquidity and security layer to DAOs everywhere. The Tally Protocol is permissionless and open source, and we’ll deliver it to everyone all at once via the Tally platform. We started @tallyxyz 4 years ago with a mission: to scale human coordination by enabling credibly neutral governance. Today, over $30B is managed by DAOs on Tally and over $661M has been transferred on Tally by the category leaders of crypto. We’ve partnered with @ScopeLift, the leading governance smart contract development team, to bring the Tally Protocol to life. ScopeLift developed Unistaker and Flexible Voting, foundations upon which the Tally Protocol is built. Together, we’re going to take DAOs to the next level. Welcome to the future of decentralization.

What does it take to win in venture? And does the industry need to change? ☝️just 1 of the topics @beezer232 & @nchirls dig into with @fintechjunkie, founding partner & CIO at @QEDInvestors, on the latest Origins podcast. 🙏Huge thanks to Frank for joining us.

🆕Ep of Origins drops next week w/ @QEDInvestors’ @fintechjunkie covering what it takes to be a great investor, the fundamental flaw in the way founders and investors have been funding startups, how VCs can avoid being left in the exhaust of larger firms, and more...👇 Stay tuned & subscribe below to catch the ep next week! 🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/23H0tOX63… 🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ori… @nchirls @beezer232 #OpenLP #OriginsPodcast

Introducing the Livepeer AI Subnet! 🚀 The dawn of generative AI marks a tidal shift in video creation. That’s why today we are launching the Livepeer AI Subnet: the world’s first decentralized video processing network with AI compute capabilities. Let's dive in 🧵👇

I've been helping with Juicebox, an open-source encryption key recovery system that provides high security coupled with a user-friendly design, to make encryption further accessible to larger numbers of people. Details on how it works: juicebox.xyz/blog/key-to-si…

Recently spent time chatting with @ShenLucinda at @axios to discuss what we are doing at Station70. Today we announce our fund raising and the launch of Bunker, key backup and recovery for institutions in the #cryptocurrency industry. axios.com/pro/fintech-de…

💥@skupor quite literally wrote the book on venture. 15 yrs ago, he was @pmarca & @bhorowitz’s first hire at @a16z & today he joins us as our first guest on the 🆕season of the Origins Pod - out now!💯 Scott joins co-hosts @beezer232 & @nchirls to discuss: 👉 a16z’s decentralized business model & keeping cultural values 👉 Managing LP/GP expectations in the current environment (e.g. markdowns) 👉 The fund size debate & what is the TAM today 👉The state of venture w AI’s inflection point + valuation corrections 👉What's changed since “Secrets of Sandhill Road” was written 5 yrs ago …and much more 👀 ▶️Apple Podcasts:podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/bui… ▶️Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0kuykU…

🆕Origins Podcast drops tmrw! @a16z Managing Partner @skupor joins co-hosts @beezer232 & @nchirls to discuss the state of VC & evolution of a16z over the last 15 yrs 🤖Tech inflection pt (#AI) + valuation correction = compelling yrs for new company formation & great VC vintages ☝️Just 1 of many great insights shared... stay tuned! Follow on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/23H0tOX63… Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/ori…

We rallied the team around one big goal in 2023: To become undeniable. Check out our annual review and watch a recap from our CEO to see how we did! circle.so/2023-review

▶️ The last Origins episode of the year is out now! Don’t miss @daveclark85 diving deep on 35+ yrs of established VC fund data to illustrate how venture is a game of power laws. 🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3G2H2V… 🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/pow… Big 🙏 to co-hosts @beezer232 of @sapphireprtnrs & @nchirls of @notationcapital for another year of hosting incredible guests for insightful conversation! 👏👏 Thanks to all for tuning in & sharing! #OpenLP #OriginsPodcast

📣The last Origins episode of the year is dropping tomorrow, and you won’t want to miss it! VenCap’s @daveclark85 joins hosts @nchirls of @notationcapital & @sapphireprtnrs’ @beezer232 to lift the hood on venture performance. As 3 individuals with 3 unique strategies - Nick, emerging manager; David, LP investing in established; & Beezer, LP investing in emerging & established - find out how their models differ & what David’s return data shows. Subscribe below👇 🎧open.spotify.com/show/23H0tOX63… #OpenLP #OriginsPodcast

Real-time AI is here! 🤯 Now the question is: How do you give artists as much control as possible? We’ve built an iPad app that lets you draw with an Apple Pencil ✨

I'm so happy to finally be able to talk about this! Congratulations to everyone on the Sawyer Team for building something that helps so many educators! linkedin.com/posts/andrew-f…

you asked, we answered. A roundtable of 2 LPs and 2 VCs sharing Q4 predictions for startups and #VC fundraising 🔮 in the latest Origins podcast 👇 🙏Seyonne Kang @StepStoneVC @edsim @nchirls spoti.fi/3PZ2wH6 👉 Q4 predictions 👉 How #GPs can affect liquidity in a way that’s actually helpful 👉 Multistage firm investments vs seed firm investments 👉 AI funds 👉 Sourcing, picking, winning & value add - S/O to @audaciousHQ’s @nakul #openlp

What can we expect to see in Q4? 🔮 The latest episode of the Origins Podcast is out, featuring a roundtable on the topic w/ @edsim, Partner at @Boldstartvc, & Seyonne Kang, Partner at @StepStoneVC. Listen to the episode to dive into: 👉 Q4 predictions 👉 How #GPs can affect liquidity in a way that’s actually helpful 👉 Multistage firm investments vs seed firm investments 👉 AI funds 👉 Sourcing, picking, winning & value add - S/O to @audaciousHQ’s @nakul 🎧 spoti.fi/3PZ2wH6 Hosted by @SapphirePrtnrs' Partner @Beezer232 & @notationcapital's @nchirls #OpenLP