Ep 4 - Maki from Sushi Swap on building a true meritocracy & successfully managing decentralized

<p>Running any startup is a bit nuts. Running one under the circumstances that Sushi faced is beyond all the norms and while Maki works hard to decentralize leadership, there's no mistaking that he is at the least guiding the team and the community down a path. I've been pretty amazed to see the quality out of chaos that the Sushi team &amp; community makes and in this interview we get into how it happens. Every project should listen to the approach.&nbsp;</p> <p>https://sushi.com<br> https://twitter.com/0xmoki</p> <p>How he ended up in his role<br> His role as not being a leader<br> How to get funded projects<br> How to get on the team<br> Grants/Funding<br> All the projects that came from the community<br> Miso<br> Shoyu<br> Work of passion<br> Sushi community mandates<br> Meritocracy - all about the output.<br> What DeFi enables<br> Setting goals and how to meet them<br> Managing project progress</p> <p>The list has been met 85% already in July<br> Decentralization is important as a forward looking goal. Right now not.<br> We are getting there. The evolution<br> Does not want to be held as needed.&nbsp;</p> <p>Will change the face of all organizations as a society.&nbsp;</p> <p>How they manage development projects<br> How they make sure projects are working for users - interviews<br> User focus groups to improve the experience<br> Analytics is next on the plate for across the protocol<br> Need a dashboard across the platform<br> Comparing against each other<br> Pairs data<br> Lots of iteration based on feedback<br> Ycombinator - Make something people want.<br> MISO - They needed a launch pad for average people to democratize things.<br> MISO was built so it is highly flexible and modularized for anyone to build something powerful.<br> Testing a Ycombinator for DeFi</p> <p><br></p> <p>Motto - Is it a win for Sushi?<br> Over 100 relationship discussions ongoing all the time.<br> </p> <p>Anonymity<br> Never talks about crypto<br> He exposed his identity initially for listings and then the rug caused a hit to his