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User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms
The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant
Jesse Waldenvariant.fund
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
Jesse Walden • The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant
-Platform cooperatives that institutionalize worker voice
Scott Kominers • A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
It was a foundational lesson for me: shareholder capitalism works because it is simple and clear, and governance models too have a tendency to default to the simple and clear. In the shareholder model, lines of accountability and performance tracking are quantified and very transparent. It may be possible to design more modern structures in theory,
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Governance, individual influence and moderation: As we discussed in previous articles, ownership is less about financial upside and more about social influence. In Web3, the individual is now influential within the organization it holds tokens of, giving s/he the ability to drive decision making that will bring better health and effectiveness to th... See more