References

Source documents behind the model. The definition itself: workers.vc/what.

Ours

• Transparency Not Permission: DAO Tools for Flow — the original thinking behind the model.
• LinkedTrust Case Study: Earned Governance in Action — presented at the 2025 Ownership Economy Summit.
• What's Cookin' corporate bylaws (2022) — Opportunity to Object and work-earned voting shares, in force.
• Practical Inclusiveness and Earned Governance — Metagov seminar, July 2024: Kenechukwu Orjiene, Amos Mwangi, Gitonga Miriam Njeri, and Golda Velez on the model in practice (recording).
• Podcasts, videos and blogs, 2023–2025 — talks and writing along the way.

Models and instruments

• The Rolling SAFE — Fairmint's explanation of the instrument.
• Slicing Pie — the dynamic equity model and its published legal agreements, including pre-incorporation and LLC operating-agreement forms.
• GovKit — the open-source toolkit that automates the equity drops.

Wider reading

• Let KKR do its thing while we convert thousands more companies to 100% employee ownership — Aner Ben-Ami of Candide Group, ImpactAlpha, 2026. The case that the gold standard is companies 100% owned by employees, preserved over the long term.
• Messiness, Mutuality, & Methodology — Candide Group on impact measurement that serves all stakeholders, not just capital.
• The Bloomberg Beta operating manual — a venture fund that open-sourced how it works, on GitHub, for the same reason our ledgers are open: transparency builds trust.
• The Evolution of Trust — Nicky Case's interactive game theory of trust: repeat interaction, win-wins, and clear communication are what let trust grow.
• The Truth about Slicing Pie — Matthew Rossetti of Sentient Law, the model's referred attorney, on making dynamic equity legally real: over 1,000 consultations, conversion to shares or membership interests at formation or funding.
• MEDLab — Nathan Schneider's Media Economies Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder: experiments with democratic ownership and governance in the online economy.
• Metagov — a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing community sovereignty and self-governance on the internet.