Alex Stein of Charterless wrote about the lessons web3 organizations can learn from Wikipedia. Most importantly: to bootstrap a network, you need to either provide early adopters a massive financial stake (the VC model) or you need to offer them non-monetary value. You need to convert them into missionaries. Bitcoin, for example, did not start as a way to make bags of cash on Robinhood. It started as a libertarian, privacy-aware, computer science experiment. It gained traction in this community of true-believers first. Then it attracted the speculators who helped scale the network by shilling their own holdings. Likewise, most DAOs need to start with a mission-aligned community, and spread to speculators later. This is the lesson of Wikipedia, which has managed to survive and thrive with strictly volunteer editors and contributors for decades.