MakerDAO
product on 6 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes · said 78 times in 22 episodes since 2018
the a16z Podcast 61 
Capital Allocators 10 
My First Million 3 
the MAD Podcast 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
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2022 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- Betting Big on Web3 with Li Jin
- Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
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2021 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196
- Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency
- Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 58 mentions in 7 episodes 8 per episode
- a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
- a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- Founding Stories: Anchorage
- Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
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2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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9 statements about MakerDAO, every show
Yanowitz: MakerDAO will generate $100M in revenue in 2023
“So MakerDAO, for example. They'll do a hundred million of revenue this year.”
Forman: MakerDAO pays roughly $40M annually across 50 core units
“So a network like MakerDAO has something on the order of 50 different core units that are each responsible for the finance and accounting of the DAO,
The growth marketing strategy of the Dow, the core engineering services, and they all have to apply to the Dow…”
Held: Almost 50% of MakerDAO's collateral is centralized stablecoins
“Well, almost 50% of its collateral is centralized stable coins.”
MakerDAO reached $200M in loan volume faster than Lending Club
“In their first year, year and a half of existence, they issued two hundred million dollars worth of these effective self loans. And that is, if we want to look at a public market comp like Lending Club, it took Lending Club five years to get to that kind of ut…”
Carlson-Wee: 2% of all Ether is locked in MakerDAO
“It's about two percent of all ether is, is held in the MakerDAO contract, and now that's hard capped by the protocol.”
Carlson-Wee: Locking 5% of Ether in MakerDAO creates systemic risk
“Now I do think it almost starts to create systemic risk at around, say, five percent of all ether.”
Milenius: Effective governance will make MKR increasingly scarce over time
“If the MKR holders do a good job, then we can expect MKR to become more scarce over time.”
Milenius: DAOs require fluid, contextual leadership rather than no leadership
“Part of our experience of growing up has been to not be afraid of leadership. Leadership is so big. With humans, whether they're coordinating on mass scales, on micro scales, or anything in between, you know, we've really learned that a good leader is worth ev…”