Greatness and innovation almost always comes by taking big risks. “The greater the risk, the greater the reward” and all that. Byron Gilliam has an essay on the Blockworks newsletter that traces the remarkable history of Polaroid founder and genius innovator Edwin Land, who inspired so much innovation in the market – from Apple to Snapchat to Walmart. He also explores how the consensus-driven decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) of Web3 can dull that same sense of revolutionary risk.