When I try to think of how it might scale, I usually end up with small pieces. * Eg, imagine a business model similar to YC bu relying on revenues of companies

When I try to think of how it might scale, I usually end up with small pieces. * Eg, imagine a business model similar to YC bu relying on revenues of companies they helped create rather then exits. More integrated then I think YC is. A company where divisional managers are (or start as) majority owners of their division. They raise capital themselves (with help). They run their own game. Thinking about it, it sounds similar to research institutes. These businesses would need to mature at a relatively small size to make this resemble a coop in some way. * A franchise is something like this also. Here (in Australia) there are a lot of franchises that aim to have <2 full time employees per franchise on average. * Limited partnerships often scale. * Some Israeli Kibbutzes were run like cooperative businesses or cooperative clusters of businesses. * A traditional agricultural village may actually be some version of a cooperative. The first one is interesting in concept. I don't think that tech startups are the best area to experiment. There is already plenty of expirementation going on with company structure and financing.