# DAOHaus Wen DAOs Win Brainstorm Session ###### tags:`ETHDenver` ## DAO Strengths - Self-ownership leads to increased passion - Flexibility and malleability for participants - Skin-in-the-game - Creative signal creation and propagation - ideas flow more freely - Protections provided by smart contracts; reducing counter party risk - Lower friction and barrier to entry - Less coersive - Rapid iteration on organizational and financial structure - More autonony, self responsibility and less victimization - Regulatory arbitrage - Contracts can be enforced on chain - Decentralization of decision making process - Scale powerfully with network effects ## DAO Weaknesses - Lower coersion can lead to less accountability and control of accountability - No guaranteed accountability - No rulebook, lack of established process and model - Information asymmetry, contributors are often at a disadvantage in information compared to leadership - Hard for DAOs to interoperate because of lack of shared process and structure - No single person who is responsible or has the onus to take action - Sybil attacks - Shared creative vision can lead to a dilution of that vision - Friction to achieve consensus - Necessity to achieve consensus - So many of these weaknesses are engineering problems that stem from the lack of rulebook, process and models - DAOs often don't have a specific desired outcome or mission - Lack of legitimate structure - Distributed liability - Contracts cannot be broken - Hyperfinancialization of governance - Operational maximalism or the "lore keeping problem" ## Corporation Strengths - Coersive efficiency - you can be easily fired if you don't produce - Formalized structures - Well known organizational models, process and rulebooks - Lots of capital and access to capital - Explicit dictators - leadership is codified - Rigid effective hierarchy - The dominant human organizational technology - B2B Corporations easily interoperate - Clarity of expectations and requirements - Clear and consistent rewards - Ability to interoperate easily with current legal structures - Limited liability - Personhood - Can breach contracts ## Corporation Weaknesses - Legal and regulatory capture - Highly coersive - you are often under constant threat of being fired - Can have their contracts breached - Monopolization; economies of scale lead to widening wealth gap - Centralization of decision making process - Rivalrous internal nature of corporations leads to undesired behavior - Opacity in many ways - Near-sighted and tunnel visioned on short term profits - Always have to grow - Soul crushing - Concentrates benefits to fewer and fewer people and entities - High employee turnover; low benefit to staying in place - Complacent spirit; low innovation