The Ownership Economy

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Welcome to the Ownership Economy podcast, the podcast that explores the people and ideas that are utilizing technology, economics, and the law to reimagine how the economy can work for everyone. Here we connect with the entrepreneurs, investors, thought-leaders, academics, and politicians that are constructing a better economy, one based on broad-based ownership and democratic governance. Hosted by Martin Smith and Jahed Momand, two investors and operators that aim to use this platform to showcase the people and ideas that will shape more inclusive economies.

Episode Date
Austin Robey of Subvert, on How to Own Bandcamp with 30,000 People
Sep 11, 2026
Bill Castellano, PhD on How Giving People Ownership Isn't the Same as Treating Them Like Owners
Sep 03, 2026
Delilah Rothenberg on The Predistribution Initiative: You Can't Diversify Away From Inequality
Aug 27, 2026
Howard Brodsky of CCA Global on Capitalism with a Conscience: The $14 Billion Co-op Whose Founder Owns No Shares
Aug 20, 2026
Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour on Building the Neighborhood Commons: What Happens When the Neighborhood Owns the Block
Aug 12, 2026
Episode 089 — Beyond the First of the Month: Atticus LeBlanc of PadSplit on Revolutionizing Rental Risk with Tech
Sep 16, 2025
Episode 088 — Scaling Capital Markets for Shared Ownership: Alison Lingane's Blueprint for Capital Growth
Sep 09, 2025
Episode 087 — Identity, Governance, and AI: A Conversation with Celo & Self Founder Rene Reinsberg
Sep 02, 2025
Episode 086 — Full Spectrum Ownership: Jason Wiener's Guide to Starting, Growing, and Exiting in the Ownership Economy
Aug 26, 2025
Episode 085 — Employee Ownership: From Wall Street to Academia with Dr. Bill Castellano
Aug 20, 2025
Episode 084 — It's the Money, Stupid: Accelerating Renter Wealth with Rowland Hobbes of Stake
Aug 12, 2025
Episode 083 — Beyond Returns: Gigi Danziger & Albert Wenger on Capital for Stewardship AND Growth
Aug 05, 2025
Episode 082 - AI Beyond Monopolies: Ben Fielding of Gensyn AI on Democratizing Compute & Open Protocols
Jul 29, 2025
Episode 081 — From Founder to Future: John Abrams on Positive Business Succession Through Employee Ownership
Jul 23, 2025
Episode 080 — Is Crypto Finally Becoming... "Boring"? A Deep Dive into Mainstream Adoption with CoinFund's David Pakman
Jul 07, 2025
Episode 079 - The Future of Business: Can Purpose-Driven Companies Outcompete the Giants? With Christian Kroll, founder of Ecosia
Dec 02, 2024
Episode 078 - From Chocolate to Co-ops: Real-World Examples of Alternative Ownership in Action, with Julie Menter of Transform Finance
Dec 02, 2024
Episode 077 - Building a Shopify for Marketplaces: Juho Makkonen on ShareTribe and Steward Ownership
Nov 27, 2024
Episode 076 - Beyond Demonstration Projects: Scaling Shared Ownership for Impact with Nathan Schneider
Nov 18, 2024
Episode 075 - Bridging the 40X Renter Wealth Equity Gap: How Viva Benefits is Disrupting the Housing Market, with Dr. Michael Barnes CEO at Viva Benefits
Nov 11, 2024
Episode 074 - Beyond Mega Funds: Democratizing Clean Energy Investment, with Adam Silver, CEO of Plural Energy
Nov 04, 2024
Episode 073: Frameworks for Responsible Crypto Regulation, with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
Jun 17, 2024
Episode 072 - Investing to Build the Ownership Economy in web3, with David Pakman, Partner at CoinFund
Jan 15, 2024
Episode 071 - Business Model and Stakeholder Innovation to Scale the Creator Economy, with Maz and Eiman of Crowdmuse
Dec 21, 2023
Episode 070 - OpenAI: An $85 Billion Dollar Governance Failure, and How it Could Have Been Anticipated, with Dr. Michael Zargham and Amber Case
Nov 26, 2023
Episode 069 - Innovating on Organizational Structures at Every Segment of the Capital Stack, with Dr. Astrid Scholz of Armillaria and Zebras Unite Co-op
Aug 31, 2023
Episode 068 - Leveraging Digital Communities as an Investment Strategy, with Sarah Drinkwater of Common Magic
Aug 25, 2023
Episode 067 - Economies Full of Meaningful Work and Competitive Companies with Dr. Ellen Frank-Miller, Founder and CEO of WORC
Aug 25, 2023
Episode 066 - Policy Innovations and Impediments in the Ownership Economy with Anthony Cimino, Head of Policy at Carta
Aug 11, 2023
Episode 065 - Governance and Possibilities: A Political Economy of the Commons, with Jenn and Ilia Murtazashvili
Aug 04, 2023
Episode 064 - Building Network Effects in Web3 Enabled Marketplaces with Adam Jackson, Co-Founder and CEO, Braintrust Network
Jul 27, 2023
Episode 063 - Creating More Value for More Stakeholders with Tools for Collective Decision-Making with Camille Canon of Apiary.xyz
Jul 20, 2023
Episode 062 - Building an Equitable Ownership Economy: Insights from Dr. Corey Rosen on Employee Ownership and ESOPs
Jun 30, 2023
Episode 061 - Why DAOs (and crypto) need a Policy Platform more than ever, with Nathan Schneider
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 060 - Expanding Access to Real Estate Ownership with Tokenized Co-living, with Dakotah Apostolou, CEO Cohere Network
Jun 02, 2023
Episode 059 - Redefining the Social Contract with John Paller: The Rise of DEOs and the Employment Commons
May 12, 2023
Episode 058 - Making it Easy for Businesses to Leverage Equity to Drive Value With Stakeholders, with Tyler Morrey of Upside Cooperative
Apr 19, 2023
Episode 057 - Creating an Equitable Data Economy to Value Ecosystem Services, with David Dao of GainForest
Apr 07, 2023
Episode 056 - From Open Access to Carbon Pollution, to Common Pool Resource: Building Carbon Financial Infrastructure with Raph Haupt, CEO Toucan Protocol
Mar 24, 2023
Episode 055 - Steward-Ownership, Purpose-Trusts, and Exiting to Community with Zoe Schlag, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Common Trust
Mar 20, 2023
Episode 054 - Creating Value as an Entrepreneur, Investor, and DAO Contributor with Nick Ducoff, Partner at G20 Ventures
Mar 10, 2023
Episode 053 - Balancing Tech and Governance Innovation with Compliance in Building the Ownership Economy, with Sean Lee, co-founder Odsy Network
Mar 03, 2023
Episode 052 -The Profit Paradox, Market Power, and the Fight for Democratic Capitalism with Professor Jan Eeckhout
Feb 24, 2023
Episode 050 - From MFi to ReFi: Impact Investment Insights and Possibilities, with Tim Rann of Mercy Corps Ventures
Feb 10, 2023
Episode 049 - Exploring the Promise (and Pitfalls) of Blockchain Technology in International Development, with Erin Grover.
Feb 03, 2023
Episode 048 - Nature-Based Solutions, Natural Assets and the Opportunities and Limits of Blockchain with Dr. Margot Clarvis
Jan 27, 2023
Episode 047 - Virtual On-Chain Option Plans and Early Stage Venture Approaches to Ownership Allocations: A Conversation with Sascha Kellert from Ownco and Jessica Van Meir from Mintstars
Jan 23, 2023
Episode 46 - Fixing a Broken Refund and Resell Market for Property Bookings: TripsTrade, with Stephen Martin
Jan 14, 2023
Episode 45 - Multiscale Energy Coordination as a Global Public Good: The Plurigrid Project, with Amber Case
Jan 14, 2023
Episode 044 - Breaking the Crypto Trilemma: How to Make Decentralization Work with Development Economist and Algorand Foundation CEO Staci Warden
Dec 09, 2022
Episode 043 - Challenges in Structuring and Scaling Early Cooperatives: A Deep Drive on Seed-Stage Asset+Labor Cooperative Marketplace with Alissa Orlando
Dec 02, 2022
Episode 042 - Social and Economic Dynamics in DAOs: A Conversation with Reka Macy from Guild.xyz
Nov 30, 2022
Episode 041 - The Cosmos Network, Collaborative Finance (Co-Fi), and the Empowerment of Monetary Localism with Cosmos Co-Founder Ethan Buchman
Nov 18, 2022
Episode 040 - Building a Better OnlyFans: Labor Rights, Empowerment, and the Mintstars Business Model with Jessica Van Meir
Nov 11, 2022
Episode 039 - Building a Stakeholder Co-Owned and Governed Pipeline of Novel Therapeutics: Tyler Golato on Molecule Protocol and Decentralized Science
Nov 04, 2022
Episode 038 - Building Local Communities Amidst Global Token Flows, Optimizing for Presence with Charlie Fisher from OASA
Oct 28, 2022
Episode 037 - What a Molecular Gastronomist Can Teach You About Building Empowered Communities and Organizations, with Daniel Ospina of RnDAO
Oct 21, 2022
Episode 036 - Creating Global Demand for Plastic Waste Reduction: The Plastiks Token and Business Model with Andre Vanyi-Robin
Oct 14, 2022
Episode 035 - Web3, Operator-Investors, Venture-Contributors and the World of Web3 VC with Jake Lynch from L1 Digital
Oct 07, 2022
Episode 034 - Optimal Timing for Launching a User-Aligned Ownership Program with Sascha Kellert from Rekursive Labs
Sep 30, 2022
Episode 033 - Making the Transition from Web2 to Web3 as a Engineer and Operator with Golda Velez, Co-founder of What’s Cookin and Former Uber and Postmates Senior Engineer
Sep 24, 2022
Episode 032 - Building a Natural Asset Economy with Regenerative Finance, with Gregory Landua of Regen Network
Sep 16, 2022
Episode 031 - Tokenized Communities and Creator Ownership, with Jihad Esmail of ForefrontDAO
Sep 14, 2022
Episode 030 - How to Unleash a Culture of Innovation in Your DAO with Liberating Structures, with Jeremy Akers of Regens Unite
Sep 02, 2022
Episode 029 - Ownership, Individuality, and Sybil Attacks: A Conversation with Octopus, GitcoinDAO Contributor
Aug 26, 2022
Episode 028 - Sharing Wealth by Realigning Incentives in Real Estate, with David Lidz of StreetWell
Aug 19, 2022
Episode 027 - Empowering Local Providers with Efficient Development Finance Facilitated through Web3 with Dr. Melyn McKay
Aug 12, 2022
Episode 026 - Decentralized Finance: Stability vs Effiiency in Design of a More Equitable Financial System with Dr. Hamid Rashid Part 2
Aug 05, 2022
Episode 025 - Building Resilience and Democratic Access to Finance by Preserving Cash with Brett Scott
Jul 22, 2022
Episode 024 - Investing in and Building the New Open Internet with Dermot O'Riordan of Eden Block
Jul 16, 2022
Episode 023 - Web3 and the Transition to Stakeholder Aligned, Democratic Institutions with Patrick Rawson
Jul 08, 2022
Episode 022 - Scaling Regenerative Economies with Local Currencies and New Markets in Natural Assets, with Luuk Weber of Kolektivo
Jul 01, 2022
Episode 021 - Evolving the Venture Capital Model in web3 to Distribute Wealth to Awesome People, with Julia Lipton of Awesome People Ventures
Jun 24, 2022
Episode 020 - Decentralized Travel Marketplaces and How They Might Improve the Travel Industry, with Maksim Izmaylov of Winding Tree
Jun 17, 2022
Episode 019 - Undefining Money and Redefining Value, with Christopher Goes of Anoma Network
Jun 10, 2022
Episode 018 - Co-creation and Co-ownership in DAOs and Co-ops with Metalabel founder Austin Robey
Jun 03, 2022
Episode 017 - Identity, Security, Reputation, and Control: Crafting Free Societies with Decentralized Identity Protocols with Jaya Klara Brekke
May 27, 2022
Episode 016 - Beyond State and Market, Building Ecosystems in the Commons with Tamara Helenius
May 20, 2022
Episode 015 - Mutual Credit on the Blockchain: Building Local Resilient Economies with David Casey
May 13, 2022
Episode 014 - Patient-Owned and Aligned Healthcare Platforms with Dr. Jen Horonjeff
May 06, 2022
Episode 013 - Designing Better Possible Futures with Impact Markets with Dr. Shaun Conway of IXO Protocol
Apr 29, 2022
Episode 012 - Patterns for Decentralized Organizing with Richard Bartlett of The Hum
Apr 22, 2022
Episode 011 - Monetary Policy and the Potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies with Hamid Rashid, Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at the United Nations
Apr 15, 2022
Episode 010 - Modeling Digital Community Governance with Joshua Tan of The Metagovernance Project
Apr 08, 2022
Episode 009 - Localized Democracy and Public Goods with Token Engineering, with Jeff Emmett of The Commons Stack / BlockScience Labs
Apr 01, 2022
Episode 008 - The Future of Work, DAOs, and Verifiable Credentials with James Young of Abridged
Mar 25, 2022
Episode 007 - Bootstrapping Digital Communities of Abundance with Mark Beylin of Myco
Mar 18, 2022
Episode 006 - Worker Ownership and the future of the “Gig Economy” with Jason Prado of the Driver’s Cooperative
Mar 11, 2022
Episode 005 - Building and Funding the Digital Commons Together with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin
Mar 04, 2022
Episode 004 - DAOs vs. Cooperatives: An Exploration of Legal, Economic, and Financing Strategies with Jason Wiener
Feb 25, 2022
Episode 003 - Actually Existing DeFi Banking Solutions for the Unbanked, with Jordi Riulas of EthicHub
Feb 18, 2022
Episode 002 - Democratizing Ownership and Governance via Exit to Community with Pia Mancini
Feb 09, 2022
Episode 001 - Cryptoeconomics, Economic Democracy, and Networked Governance in Web3 with Nathan Schneider
Feb 09, 2022