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Post Growth Entrepreneurship with Melanie Rieback
Manage episode 454955496 series 3422135
Melanie Rieback is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and the founder of Nonprofit Ventures, an organization dedicated to supporting post growth entrepreneurs. She runs an incubator to support post growth entrepreneurs and teaches a course at the University of Amsterdam on post growth entrepreneurship. Her lectures are available on YouTube, linked below.
This episode builds on a long series of conversations on this podcast exploring economic reform: stakeholder capitalism, steward ownership, co-ops, post-growth economics, to name a few. While it's called pot growth entrepreneurship, really this conversation is about non-extractive entrepreneurship. PGE rejects the typical silicon valley model of capital, scale, exit, in favor of bootstrapping, flat growth, and non-extraction.
In this conversation Jenny and Melanie discuss:
- Melanie's path from cybersecurity entrepreneur to post growth entrepreneurship
- Why not all forms of steward ownership ensure profit serves purpose
- Why Melanie believes business is one of the most effective forms of activism
- Defining post growth entrepreneurship (PGE)
- Why PGE is a leverage point for systemic change
- Issues with the Silicon Valley model of capital, scale, exit
- Issues with status quo social enterprise and impact investing
- Principles of PGE: bootstrapping, flat growth, non-extraction
- Asset locks and stable steward ownership implementation
- Policy initiatives in Europe to create a steward owned business entity
- How to think about fair compensation when implementing PGE
- Thoughts on the cultural component of this work
- Business as spirituality
Resources:
- Nonprofit Ventures website: https://nonprofit.ventures/
- Post Growth Entrepreneurship: three minute explainer video
- "Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice" Medium post
- Melanie's post growth entrepreneurship course at the University of Amsterdam; 8 YouTube lectures
To stay connected to all things Denizen, you can sign up for our newsletter at www.becomingdenizen.com. There we share our latest content alongside community events, educational opportunities, and announcements from our many partner organizations.
62 episodes
Manage episode 454955496 series 3422135
Melanie Rieback is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and the founder of Nonprofit Ventures, an organization dedicated to supporting post growth entrepreneurs. She runs an incubator to support post growth entrepreneurs and teaches a course at the University of Amsterdam on post growth entrepreneurship. Her lectures are available on YouTube, linked below.
This episode builds on a long series of conversations on this podcast exploring economic reform: stakeholder capitalism, steward ownership, co-ops, post-growth economics, to name a few. While it's called pot growth entrepreneurship, really this conversation is about non-extractive entrepreneurship. PGE rejects the typical silicon valley model of capital, scale, exit, in favor of bootstrapping, flat growth, and non-extraction.
In this conversation Jenny and Melanie discuss:
- Melanie's path from cybersecurity entrepreneur to post growth entrepreneurship
- Why not all forms of steward ownership ensure profit serves purpose
- Why Melanie believes business is one of the most effective forms of activism
- Defining post growth entrepreneurship (PGE)
- Why PGE is a leverage point for systemic change
- Issues with the Silicon Valley model of capital, scale, exit
- Issues with status quo social enterprise and impact investing
- Principles of PGE: bootstrapping, flat growth, non-extraction
- Asset locks and stable steward ownership implementation
- Policy initiatives in Europe to create a steward owned business entity
- How to think about fair compensation when implementing PGE
- Thoughts on the cultural component of this work
- Business as spirituality
Resources:
- Nonprofit Ventures website: https://nonprofit.ventures/
- Post Growth Entrepreneurship: three minute explainer video
- "Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice" Medium post
- Melanie's post growth entrepreneurship course at the University of Amsterdam; 8 YouTube lectures
To stay connected to all things Denizen, you can sign up for our newsletter at www.becomingdenizen.com. There we share our latest content alongside community events, educational opportunities, and announcements from our many partner organizations.
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