From the great Daily Gwei newsletter: "To do this sort of capital formation in the traditional finance world, you’d have to use centralized payment processors (who would most likely censor you), it’d be extremely slow, the money raised would be much less and the raise itself would be very exclusionary. You also couldn’t create a DAO out of it and have it be governed by token holders - the traditional system is just not set up to do this in any practical way. ... In saying all of this, it’s not just the rapid capital formation aspect of DAOs that fascinate me - it’s also the rapid social coordination that can form around a common goal. It has a flywheel effect to it too: more capital raised > more social credibility/marketing the DAO obtains > more capital comes in because of that and so on and so forth. This is why ConstitutionDAO has gone from $0 to over $40 million in less than a week - this is really the true power of a global, decentralized and censorship-resistant internet-native economy - built on Ethereum and powered by humans."
If you don't agree or see that this is qualitatively different from "any other fund raiser", I don't know what else to say. What other examples do you have of spinning up $40M in short order for something like this? It's a qualitative difference in speed, scale, decentralization, etc., that will continue to grow. This is just the start.