In order to balance out for profit motives with long term neutrality the following factors can be taken into consideration: (1) Capital need and ownership of a project, (2) Syndication and relative allocations, (3) Governance rights.
While venture capitalists are optimising for value extraction per mandate, crypto cooperatives intend to create and distribute value as broadly as possible in order to stay minimally extractive long term. This is why decentralization matters.