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# Introduction to Growth DAO

**Growth DAO - A venture building ecosystem aiming to back the next wave of startups and provide them with the resources needed to scale.**

Growth DAO is a new way of building startups. A united, global community of entrepreneurial leaders, startup enthusiasts and hands-on-investors, joined in a shared passion for building the next wave of startups. A digital cooperative, empowering entrepreneurs regardless of borders or circumstance.

We’ll do it using the DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) framework. A DAO uses blockchain technology to empower a global workforce to create wealth for themselves, their families and their community - not through speculation, but through realising their collective potential and building startups together. And they’ll all own a part of what they’ve built.

This is the vision of Growth DAO and we will build a portfolio of organisations with a combined market cap of $10bn. Our mission is to build startups to be proud of and to create prosperity and security for members at a global scale. Here’s how we’re going to do it…