The decentralized autonomous company has already been explored with things like Bitshares. Frankly, it kinda sucks. You have people providing decentralized funding, then the workers that take it have no real incentive or liability to perform unless the worker is already a huge shareholder...but that kind of extremely narrows down your field of workers doesn't it? You could issue legal contracts with the workers and sue them if they don't perform, but who is the figurehead of the DAO that handles all these things and appears in court? The DAO converges to centralization resembling a normal, publicly traded company because business is only efficient in a strict, hierarchical, top-down function.
So what exactly do you accomplish out of all this? If the DAO doesn't collapse on the way to it's evolution in becoming top-down controlled, your only real benefit is the ability to bypass the legal framework and issue a publicly traded stock from your basement (which will probably get people arrested somehow). So the pros are slightly less legal bureaucracy (only in the short term), with the cons of having nobody at the helm of the company who actually has any idea what they're doing with a valid business plan (you know, the actual important part of a business).
That is the main issue with DAO. A graduate level lawyer would be able to explain to the idiots why this is an unsolvable issue with DAO. (Not that the idiots who "invest" in this nonsense would care at all as they couldn't care less about DAO - they are involved to realize the "ROI").
http://www.coindesk.com/how-to-sue-a-decentralized-autonomous-organization/"Second, for a DAO to operate in a world in which legal relationships are formalized by contracts, and enforced by courts, I don't see how a DAO can act unless it is either a corporation or it has no corporate form and it is simply an extension of its human members."
and this is the most interesting bit
"Among other things, the members of a general partnership
can end up jointly and severally liable on a personal basis for partnership obligations. One potential flaw in their structure is that they may not have assets from which to indemnify third parties.".
However the DAO operators try to twist the facts around the legal responsibility issue, the court will enforce its orders and rulings on the human operators of the network. Would Vitalik get as far as operating a DAO? I doubt he will. It is nothing else but selling a useless, fraudulent fucking cryptoasset.