Community co-creation

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.

The conventional way of creating value is top-down, where corporations are the “dictators” in control of value creation. Instead, an organization with a community-first mindset acts as a facilitator, creating spaces for members to create value and decide on the group’s direction. Web3 projects work bottom-up: project members decide what they want... See more

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.

squads allow social currency and financial capital to inter-convert, creating opportunities and group resiliency that would have been impossible to achieve alone

It’s a subtle but massive difference in mindset. Traditionally, businesses create all the value for the consumer. Community-driven businesses create spaces for consumers to create value for each other.

Contributions to the squad are positive sum. And in return for their contribution, members have access to an expanded set of opportunities, claims on future economic flows and guarantees backed by the group.

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... See more

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... See more