The Future Companies Have No Founders

doug_scott
2 min readApr 20, 2018

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The world where a founding team run a company for years is coming to an end. Blockchain, Crypto and especially ICO’s are the just the start.

We had localised, centralised companies like the old corner shop. It was owned by some local people and they employed some local people.

Then the new big companies appeared, dominated by the founding family, who kept control of the company for decades and even generations…Rothchild’s, Heiniken, etc

The monster tech companies appeared, with the mantra that a genius founder could run a company from inception to mega…. Apple ( Jobs ), Google ( Larry and Sergei), Facebook ( Zuch ), Amazon ( Bezos ), etc

Then the decentralised systems appeared, but still society hung onto the past. ICO’s were still the same as the monster tech companies. The founding teams still controlled the vision and had more coins that anyone else and could control much of the “company”. ICO’s were just a new mechanism to fund the same ideas. Anyone could create a new ICO and call it a fork, but this was effectively just another “company” with the same funding mechanisms. People still worshipped at the alter of the founder, Vitalik (Ether ), Roger Ver (Bitcoin Cash ), etc

What would happen if we simply had “Ideas” that could raise via an ICO. The “Idea” would then reward coins to people based on how they help the “Idea” develop. We no longer need founders. The best help appears at the best time and gets reward suitably.

With my Linkybrains hat on is this the future for these people to be rewarded for their contribution to society?

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