Platform Co-Ops: Competitive Edge, Social Purpose

Mar 10, 2018

9:30am – 10:30am CT

Recording: Platform Co-Ops: Competitive Edge, Social Purpose, Mar 10, 2018

Many online platforms struggle to create a loyal base of value-contributing, brand-championing, fairly treated users. A new generation of startups has turned to a time-tested strategy: shared ownership. Around the world, the "platform co-op" movement is bringing cooperative business models to the online economy. We’ll hear from sustainable, transformative companies that are ultimately accountable not to short-term profits, but to the people they depend on—their users.

[Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.]

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

Jen Horonjeff

Savvy Cooperative

Nathan Schneider

University of Colorado Boulder

Armin Steuernagel

Purpose Ventures eG

Brianna Wettlaufer

Stocksy United

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