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The Cooperation Economy 🤝
That’s a Liquid Super Team in action: a team of people with different strengths, most of whom wouldn’t quit their job to work for Maple full-time, committing to work on it a few hours a week. Everyone retains optionality, and everyone has upside.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
DOs are collections of like-minded people with like-minded goals, that work together to make progress towards those goals. Unlike typical employment, DO’s don’t make you sign employment contracts and become exclusively committed to them. DO members are free to fluidly move between DOs , contributing their skills wherever they fit. Rather than rigid... See more
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
The Cooperation Economy will be marked by the growing prominence of Liquid Super Teams, collections of individuals, each with their own strengths, powers, and network, who combine forces to achieve goals.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
The Cooperation Economy is emergent ; if companies are planned top-down, collaborations form and dissipate as needed. Individuals will come together -- formally or informally -- to create Liquid Super Teams , formed of people with the right set of combined attributes for the task at hand. They might last a day, they might last three years. Then eac... See more
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
Cooperation is the winning strategy in the Great Online Game.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
This is the key to abundant systems - it’s the optimal strategy.
As my friend Dror Poleg wrote in NFTs and the Future of Work, “Technology will make it possible to compensate each person according to their economic value. That’s pretty bad news for most people, and very good news for some.”
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
DAOs make it easier to form, organize, and compensate Liquid Super Teams.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
While big funds need to have sharp elbows -- they need to prove to founders that their money is better than their rivals’ -- solo GPs can pull together Liquid Super Teams of other solo GPs who, together, would give the company a better chance of success. Companies like Party Round will make this even easier and more common.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
Similarly, if people follow people, not companies, then bringing together a group of people, all with their own audiences and toolkits, should create more reach and ability, more cheaply, than a company that employs all those people, if they could even hire them in the first place.