02: CityDAO Ideator; From First Tweet to Successful Launch // Scott Fitsimones

CityDAO Podcast | A Crypto City of the Future

Scott Fitsimones is the Founder of CityDAO and the Co-Founder and CTO of AirGarage. His previous working experiences include being a Production Engineering Intern at Facebook, Software Engineering Intern at CERN, and iOS Engineer at MobilBytes. Today, he is putting land on-chain at CityDAO and building better cities at AirGarage. Usually, Scott writes about cities, crypto, and mechanism design. He also believes in building things you want to exist and writes about the things you want to change.

CityDAO is building a network of assets on-chain, starting with a single parcel of land in Wyoming. Each parcel of land is an NFT that can be owned collectively by the DAO or by individuals. It is a DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, meaning it is managed by the community. It is also a DAO for decentralized asset ownership.

Key Points from the Interview:

1. “CityDAO is aiming to decentralize ownership of land and assets, and so I think there’s a trend here, which is, these assets formerly only accessible to the wealthiest Americans, and now they’re being democratized through these DAOs that are coming together to own them collectively.”
2. “One of my core motivating beliefs is that mechanism design can make the world better.”