Why Don't Uber Drivers Own Shares? Now They Could

The joint stock corporation expanded the group of people who had financial upside from just founders to founders and employees. Crypto networks will expand this from founders and employees to founders, employees, and users.

Skoll made some initial inquiries into how it could be done, from handing out shares to eBay's biggest buyers and sellers, to creating a mechanism for the entire eBay community to buy pre-IPO stock. But the idea ran into resistance from the investment bankers and lawyers. The investment bankers had selfish reasons for opposing the plan. Pre-IPO sha

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