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User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms
- Ownership, via employee stock option plans, has been a powerful tool for incentivizing talented people to dedicate their skills to building startups in Silicon Valley. While this model has been extremely successful, it hasn’t been accessible to all, constrained by geography and legacy financial infrastructure, among other factors. One result is tha... See more
from The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant by variant.fund
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- Ownership is a powerful motivator for users to contribute to products in deeper ways, be it with ideas, computing resources, code, or community building. This more cooperative economic model helps ensure better alignment with users over time, resulting in platforms that can be larger, more resilient, and more innovative. This is the Ownership Econo... See more
from The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant by Jesse Walden
- The ownership economy doesn’t always mean a literal distribution of tokens, stock options, or equity. Rather, it means that ownership — which may manifest in the form of novel economic rewards, platform governance, or new forms of social capital — can be a new keystone of user experiences, with plenty of design space to explore. - Jesse Walden
from Co-ops, DAOs, and the way forward for collectives by Austin Robey
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