The Ownership Economy

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Jason Wiener, an attorney at Jason Wiener p.c. He is a social entrepreneur, advisor and a long time board member to renowned digital platform cooperatives, including Stocksy United. In the conversation, Jason discusses the history of the cooperative movement and how this traditional structure can inform new organizational designs such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). In so doing, this episode provides entrepreneurs and investors with insight into the technical and legal innovations, opportunities, risks and limits of these new organizational designs. Here are the show notes: Jason Wiener Firm The Main Street Phoenix Project What Can 'Decentralised Autonomous Organisations' (DAOs) and Platform Cooperatives Learn from Each Other? Wyoming DAO Law

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Jordi Riulas, angel investor, entrepreneur, and board member at EthicHub. In the conversation, Jordi covers how EthicHub's DeFi platform is leading the regenerative finance movement by helping investors provide loans to unbanked coffee cooperatives in Mexico, creating a circular economy for their products in the EU and the US, and turning over ownership and governance to the farmers themselves with the Ethix platform token. It's a fascinating case study in co-designing products with communities, learning and iterating, and picking objectives that benefit not only your company, but the community that contributes value to it over the long term.Here are the show notes: Regenerative Finance Movement Applied Regenerative Economics The Regenerative Finance DAO EthicHub Buy coffee on EthicHub direct from coffee cooperatives in Chiapas Jordi Riulas on Instagram and LinkedIn Not-fit-for-purpose: multi-stakeholder initiatives and the pathway forward Climate Change And The Circular Economy

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Pia Mancini, co-founder and CEO of Open Collective. In the conversation, we explore Pia's early work broadening access to democratic governance and starting a digital-first political party in Argentina, borderless democracy, commons-based projects, and the future of Open Collective as a community-owned project as it explores Nathan Schneider and co-authors vision for exit-to-community. Here are the show notes: Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community” Early musings on "Exit to Community" for Open Collective How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era (TED Talk) Exit to Community: A Primer Steward Ownership

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UC-Boulder, the co-author of Exit to Community, and principal invesigator of the Metagovernance Project. In the conversation, we cover the history of the cooperative movement, what DAOs and cooperatives can learn from each other, the perils of digital governance design, and the future of community-based democratic governance. Here are the show notes: Beyond Cryptoeconomics: Platform Cooperativism and the Future of Blockchain Governance Article on a democratic counterpart to venture capital for financing, and a software stack that supports creative democratic governance Cryptoeconomics as a limitation of governance Cryptoeconomics is fundamentally about the use of economic incentives together with cryptography to design and secure different kinds of systems and applications.” - Buterin 2018 A Pre-History of DAOs by Kei Kreutler DAOs are the natural evolution of organizational forms after tribes, institutions, markets, and networks. A Preface to Economic Democracy by Robert Dahl A functional political economic liberal democracy might require economic democracy and other mechanism designs Markets in the Name of Socialism: The left-wing origins of neoliberalism by Johanna Bockman (George Mason) How functional markets require competition, and what market socialism organizational forms can teach us about current democratic forms