Revisions to the team structure, a standardized compensation approach, a reduced overall ask, and a plan for last quarter’s surplus. Bravo!
To be opposed to this revised PTBR at this point is, in my opinion, to be opposed to the continued production of quality PoolTogether content. After all, if this PTBR is to go unfunded, the growth team would have to dissolve, leaving at best volunteers and Generations existing staff to pick up all the slack.
I, as part of the Growth Team, won’t be voting, but I’m hopeful that there are enough members of the community who see the value in what we do. Here is what I believe should be motivating voters to vote in favour of this PTBR.
There is very little content beyond what the Growth Team produces, and what does exist, at least on the user-generated side, has mostly seen worse reach and worse results. Furthermore, some user-generated content we’ve seen is completely incorrect about what the protocol is and how it works, risking creating negative opinions or expectations of PoolTogether. And, the assumption that this could all be produced by Generations (Tjark, Tim, and the devs) is unrealistic, and would, at the very least require that their own PTBR be increased. That’s the thing, you see: when people do work, they need be paid.
I know some want to invent arbitrary numbers that they see as the value of our work, without comparing those numbers to similar products, periods of time, or budgets from other DAOs/protocols. Not only do I wholeheartedly disagree with these critiques, I disagree with the entire premise. As @Loitering_Gorilla pointed out in this excellent discussion post, PoolTogether is actually getting quite good value for the services rendered, and the results being expected would normally be correlated to the work and budget of a larger coordination than our humble Growth Team alone.
I recommend everyone read’s Sean’s post
Thanks everyone who took the time to read through all of this and, again, great work @poptones! I’m hopeful that we can continue working together to help grow PoolTogether. It will only be possible if people support our PTBR though. Fingers crossed the signal can get through the noise