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The initial steward-owned structure left founders with most voting power; democratisation came later.

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Juho MakkonenCo-Founder · SharetribeLinkedIn ↗

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The initial steward-owned structure left founders with most voting power; democratisation came later.

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Attributed contributors: Juho Makkonen. “The initial steward-owned structure left founders with most voting power; democratisation came later..” Mission Without Exit: Designing Ownership That Survives Success. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 17 September 2026. Session time 19:11–19:52. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-ad293d1757d0

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The initial steward-owned structure left founders with most voting power; democratisation came later.

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Juho MakkonenCo-Founder · SharetribeLinkedIn ↗

Proposed mechanism: Change the allocation of control separately from protections on purpose.

Conditions: Deliberate further governance reform.

Limit: Steward ownership is not synonymous with equal worker voting.

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Ownership is a bundle of rights whose boundaries and distribution must be examined separately.

Profit participation, control, secure use and durable purpose can be combined differently. No legal label establishes all four, and membership boundaries matter.

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