coops

Building a next generation of user owned and controlled tech cooperatives won’t be easy. Co-ops are more difficult to finance in the initial stages. There’s a lack of mentorship, legal difficulties in starting a co-operative and little information available on how to start one. The hegemonic startup ecosystem largely ignores ideas that don’t provid... See more

Through collective ownership of tech platforms, we can more equitably distribute economic rewards, and allow workers and users to capture the value they create, instead of it being extracted from them. This is particularly true of platforms with user generated content. Let’s remember to ask: Who is generating the value? Who is capturing it?