Cooperatives and Founder Incentives

Hi there. Today we’ll be discussing the ways in which contemporary cooperatives incentivize founders to take entrepreneurial risk and reward their visionary zeal within the cooperative structure. This question regularly arises in our work. Let’s start by unpacking what founder equity is really all about.  When an entrepreneur starts up a new business, they’re taking …

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The Best Way to Fight Uber? Own It.

Originally published at the Roosevelt Institute Progressives should embrace employee ownership as one of the best ways to challenge corporate power from the bottom up and put supporting the growth of worker-owned firms in the center of our strategy. As the economy becomes Uber-ized and dominant firms in all sectors take up more and more market share, …

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