# kaal:claim:3962614-023

**Claim.** A VC's proportional holdings of reputation tokens are likely to increase over time if the VC follows sound and successful practices by staking reputation tokens on investment proposals and succeeding in the selection of portfolio companies.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- a VC DAO where members stake reputation for or against proposals

**Source quote.**

> The VC's proportional holdings of these reputation tokens is likely to increase over time if the VC follows sound and successful practices by way of staking the VC's reputation tokens on investment proposals and succeeding in the selection of portfolio companies

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu* (2021), IV. Reputation as Capital, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3962614

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**Topics.** reputation, tokenomics, dao, governance-design

**Keywords.** reputation-staking, track-record, reputation-tokens, dao-governance

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