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Are you familiar with the concept of co-ops? A lot of businesses are run by their workers or their members/consumers. They can hire or fire people to work as
by LarryMullins 4y ago
Are you familiar with the concept of co-ops? A lot of businesses are run by their workers or their members/consumers. They can hire or fire people to work as management as they see fit.
It's not very unlike the board of investors of a business hiring or firing management, except instead of a board of investors you have co-op members.
- travisgriggs 4y agoYeah, I love co-ops. I wish there were more of them. I'd love to work for one if the pay was acceptable.
- jimbokun 4y agoWould be interesting to structure a software startup as a coop. I think the pushback would be the founders and early employees willing to share equally with later employees/members.
- davidw 4y agoThere was one in my hometown, in a different industry. One thing I heard about it was that decision making was extremely painful.
- ghaff 4y agoIt wouldn't surprise me if there weren't similarities to volunteer organizations, decision making in which--as you say--can be very painful.
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- clankyclanker 4y agoIgalia is that, in Spain: http://www.igalia.com/ http://www.igalia.com/
- adastra22 4y agoValve is basically that, no?
- tm-guimaraes 4y agoNo. Valve is privately owned, with GabeN having a big share (AFAIK, since it's private, we wouldn't easily know who/what owns each % of Valve) You might hear about Valve in these kind of discussion not because of its ownership model but because of its "flat hierarchy", the philosophy of "no boss". But obviously, humans always organise in hierarchies, companies like Valve simply have no formal ones, you just have to navigate well social/politically to understand who you need to please. Also, a single person can't usually deliver a big project in a reasonable timescale, so how do you get a team? There's always a lot of more politics (arguing around, convincing others) involved in flat-hierarchies or co-ops, but they are much less likely to get a power hungry vulture dictating things.
- nextos 4y agohttps://galois.com https://galois.com is employee-owned, and AFAIK they use interesting technologies like Haskell, theorem provers, etc.