Platform Cooperativism – The Future of Democratic Business
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Nathan highlights business owned by workers such as Green Taxi in Boulder, and explains how Platform Cooperativism, meaning multiple owners of a given business who elect / choose managers, is leading to the creation of more democratic, successful businesses.
Nathan also talks about how these firms are financed, how compensation to employees is structured, and how these firms succeed more often than their traditional, pyramid-structured legacy counterparts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.8 | Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here, around the corner technology. |
| 0:31.9 | And today I have Nathan Schneider as my guest. |
| 0:35.4 | He's a scholar in residence studying platforms and platform cooperatism. |
| 0:42.2 | If I go any further, I'm not going to give them a great introduction, so I'm going to let him do it. |
| 0:46.6 | How are you doing, Nathan? |
| 0:48.4 | Good. I'm glad to be on the show. |
| 0:51.2 | Yeah. So if you can, again, tell folks who you are and what you do. |
| 0:57.1 | Just give a brief outline of what goes on. What are you doing? |
| 1:00.9 | Sure. So I teach at the University of Colorado Boulder, but primarily what I'm involved in is this idea of platform cooperativism. |
| 1:15.8 | And the idea is, it's a big word, but the idea is kind of simple, |
| 1:19.8 | that what would it look like if we were to own and govern the online platforms that we depend on every day, the Googles, the |
| 1:31.0 | Facebooks, the Uber's. |
| 1:33.8 | And this isn't just an idea or just a question. |
| 1:36.9 | It's actually a growing movement of people around the world who are starting to build |
| 1:41.2 | businesses that do just that, especially in response to the perceived |
| 1:46.1 | failures and frustrations of the sharing economy as people, you know, on the one hand, |
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