The Limeleaf Podcast

10. Why Your Tech Startup Should Be a Worker Co-Op

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Steve Giordano from Interstitial and Ethan Winn from Obran join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker co-ops! What they are and, more importantly, why we think they are a great corporate structure for tech startups.

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Show Notes and Links
Guests
  • Steve Giordano, Interstitial Technology
  • Ethan Winn, Obran Cooperative
    • Podcasts and Media
    • Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
    • Stuff You Should Know, "How Worker Co-Ops Work"
    • The Laura Flanders Show
    • Upstream Podcast
      • Cool Co-ops To Check Out
      • Colab
      • Colorado Drivers Cooperative
      • Comp.coop
      • CoTech (UK tech co-op network)
      • Hypha Worker Co-operative
      • Igalia
      • IOCoop
      • Platform Cooperativism Consortium
        • Organizations and Networks
        • Cotech
        • Cooperation Works!
        • Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City
        • Democracy at Work Institute
        • ICA Group
        • Launch.coop
        • National Cooperative Business Association
        • New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives
        • Patio, Patio chat
        • Project Equity
        • Start.coop
        • US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, USFWC Slack channel
        • Worker's Co-Op
          • Legal
          • CoopLaw.org
          • Edward P. Swyer Justice Center at Albany Law School
          • DRGA (Argentine cooperative law firm)
          • Jason Wiener, PC (cooperative attorney)
          • Sustainable Economies Law Center
            • Financial
            • LIFT Fund
            • Seed Commons
            • Shared Capital Cooperative
            • The Working World
            • Transform Finance
              • Events
              • 2026 Worker Co-op Conference (September 26-27, Boston)
              • Co-Op Events Calendar
              • Platform Cooperativism Conference
              • USFWC Upcoming Events
                • Books
                • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
                • Humanizing the Economy by John Restakis
                • Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
                • Ours to Hack and to Own edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider
                • Owning Our Future by Marjorie Kelly
                • The Making of a Democratic Economy by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard
                • We Should Own The Economy by Elle Griffin
                  • ...more
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