Grow Your Own Cloud
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Sep 12, 2022
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Sep 14, 2022
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Sep 12, 2022
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GYOC - Grow Your Own Cloud
Attendance: GYOC: Cyrus, Manansh / Fight Club: FiBo, NFThinker
Origin Story
Began in 2017 - as a design project
started working with scientists to bring to fruition
Ambition was to create artistic works, but gained residency with Gingko Bio Works in 2020 when things became more serious
Team Members
- Two full time employees
- Cyrus has been in Web3 since 2016
- Monica, co-founder
- Web3 Core Team
- Manansh - came in via Seed Club
- background in blockchain development - computer science degree
- Designers
- blockchain devs
- biologists
- plant engineers
- data strategists
- Gingko team
- Cisco of synthetic biology
- https://www.ginkgobioworks.com
- not investing capital, but providing technical support
- artists (influencers)
Marketing strategy is partly leveraging artists and musicians
Fund Raise Experience
- how did they build the deck?
- iterations
- it was hugely challenging
- difficult to prove such a radicle strategy
- What feedback have they received on investment deck?
- for many it doesn’t fit their model because mix of Synthetic biology and Web3 are still nacent
Seed Club Experience
- Helpful for growing community
- Jess, Anthony, and Seed Club team are helpful
- 1-1 calls and general advice
- connecting with relevant
- squad building wasn’t as helpful as they were more motivational than advisory
- could be good for new teams
- 12 week course was helpful