"We also didn’t believe for a second things would get as crazy as it did."

Brother, your initial post had 1 million+ impressions, 3,800 comments and you claimed to have every single main character of the ai meta on as an advisor. Anybody with half a brain could have seen this coming. 

To start, why would you only raise $100k to launch an investment DAO when you could have raised wayyyyyy more when your goal was to "invest in the most promising projects across multiple ecosystems". $100k would get you invested in one, maybe two projects.

 The only logical conclusion was that you wanted to maximize extraction and give your friends a free 2000x.