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Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities.

Any current co-ops or communities that you would take inspiration from?

I look (admittedly from the outside) at communities/projects such as @bomb.sh and @e18e.dev and take inspiration. Co-ops are obviously a whole other thing. In the past I've come across things like www.workers.coop and www.coops.tech Would love people who know more than me to share here.

I have looked into making @bomb.sh a co-op! The corporate infrastructure available in the US is, unsurprisingly, not very amenable to that structure! @igalia.com is probably the gold standard. Spain legally supports worker cooperative companies in a way that would be very complex to pull off here.

I know @erlend.sh has put a lot of thought into doing this with @roomy.space, which I deeply admire him writing about so transparently. Unfortunately it does come down to funding at the end of the day. blog.roomy.space/3mq5nohx64c2u

There are so many incredible designers and engineers that would make amazing founders that can't even seem to land a full time role right now. I've long dreamed of an org that provides seed funding and legal support to build a cohort of US-based tech co-ops, but idk how that remains not VC-shaped.