Episode 150 (18 Aug 2021): After more than a decade of launching & running Couchsurfing, the largest trust experiment of all time with 20M+ users, Casey Fenton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyfenton/) has turned his attention to one of the biggest trust & cooperation challenges in business: Company ownership. His latest startup, Upstock (upstock.io), makes it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to offer Fortune 1000-level equity to their workers without expensive and time-consuming lawyers.

Links David mentioned

https://www.couchsurfing.com

https://waag.org/en/article/airbnb-harming-amsterdams-communities

The Secrets of Our Success (same author of a new book on WEIRD…)

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=723 <=== social capital and evolution. Great book!

Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com

https://www.inputmag.com/features/rise-and-ruin-of-couchsurfing