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Democratizing the sharing economy.

On what matters

On what matters

This post was originally published in Sharetribe’s internal communication channel. I wrote it to describe to the team what motivates me in…
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Juho Makkonen
Feb 19, 2020
Steward-ownership is capitalism 2.0

Steward-ownership is capitalism 2.0

In my previous post, I explained why we need to change incentive structures if we want to build companies that are a force for good in…
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Juho Makkonen
May 2, 2018
How to build companies that are a force for good in society

How to build companies that are a force for good in society

Most technology startups say they’re “making the world a better” place as anyone who watches the TV show Silicon Valley knows. Reality is…
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Juho Makkonen
Apr 19, 2018
Sharetribe Go becomes source-available after being open-source for 8 years

Sharetribe Go becomes source-available after being open-source for 8 years

Today, we are changing the license of Sharetribe Go from MIT to Sharetribe Community Public Licence. For 99.9% of the users of self-hosted…
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Juho Makkonen
Oct 2, 2019
Updating Sharetribe’s values

Updating Sharetribe’s values

During our all-hands retreat this past summer, we decided to revise Sharetribe’s company values. What we ended up with was the third…
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Juho Makkonen
Sep 19, 2017
Reflections on platform cooperativism and open source

Reflections on platform cooperativism and open source

An update on October 2nd, 2019: after this post was published, I’ve changed my position on open source a bit. Sharetribe Go’s source code…
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Juho Makkonen
Feb 23, 2017
Helping marketplace entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses: Introducing the Marketplace…

Helping marketplace entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses: Introducing the Marketplace…

It’s been a great year for us at Sharetribe. Since our big launch a year ago, hundreds of marketplace businesses have been started on our…
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Sharetribe
Dec 18, 2015
What we’re all about: Sharetribe’s purpose and values

What we’re all about: Sharetribe’s purpose and values

Update Sep 25th 2017: since this post was published, we’ve updated our values. Read more here.
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Sharetribe
Feb 18, 2015
Why Sharetribe is open source

Why Sharetribe is open source

An update on October 2nd, 2019: after this post was published, we’ve adjusted Sharetribe Go’s license. Its source code is still available…
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Juho Makkonen
Aug 30, 2016
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