Pacenotes: Exit to Community and Personal Tokens with Nathan Schneider

Usually, the exit is when the startup gets sold to a bigger, generally more boring company, or when it “goes public” on a stock market and pieces of it get passed among countless buyers and sellers. That’s when investors, along with founders and early employees, get their payday. But for startups that build communities—of users, or workers, or whom... See more

So if I step back, a good consumer token model in my mind:

• Releases a token early, recognizes the end state is entirely unclear, and maintains optionality on how it’ll evolve in future


• Has mechanics to distribute tokens over a long time frame to users / participants that are creating value


• Captures value from the speculation layer and funnels it into

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So far, I have not figured this out. Getting paid in tokens is one thing, finding ways to make them productive and sustainable is another.