stLouISTPlatform Co-ops Offer Startups Viable Funding Alternatives to Investor Control
I was extremely lucky to (VIDEO) chat about platform co-ops with Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder.
Nathan is the Author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy and Co-editor of Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet.
The interview was conducted on the 25th October 2021 and was originally intended to be just recorded for notes of our conversation "on background" while I was researching a student (Mizzou) journalism assignment into Broadband Co-ops.
That original story got abandoned but this conversation was so interesting, Nathan kindly gave me permission to convert our call into an audio episode and publish on EQ.
The interview has been edited for clarity.
We discuss lots of interesting stuff, from topics such as new legislation passed in 2021 that improves crowdfunding options for startups and what it's like to run a platform co-op, to how blockchain innovation overlaps with the cooperative mission to create stakeholder led companies.
