I intend to vote yes – although I do want to voice some concerns with this direction.
Gitcoin has yet to prove out a revenue model, so I worry it may be premature to have a standalone BD team – especially if that team is expected to drive growth across multiple products. There’s normally a risk of BD teams getting out of sync with product teams or other key stakeholders, and then scoring deals that have strings attached / aren’t a good fit. Knowing the people on GSD, I think this risk is minimized. But I’ll state for the record that I think truly figuring out the “what matters” is necessary to take the “fund” part to the next level.