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Moriah Dean

Aug 12, 2026

22:15
Yeah.
22:15
You've got, um, the ESOPs, you have cooperatives inside of that.
22:20
You can have everything from the grocery kind of producer, the grocery co-ops that you might see in your community, a producer co-op, um, which, you know, is very common in a lot of farming communities and cultures.
22:32
Then you've got the worker co-op, um, that all kind of fall under this cooperative one, one share, one vote, often paying cash on an annual basis.
22:42
And then the third bucket is really employee-owned trusts, um, or a perpetual trust, which is a relatively newer model here in the US but one that has really been, um, significant in the UK, um, due to some of the policy positions, um, in, in the UK.
23:03
And that, the employee-owned trust or perpetual trust model, um, is its own, it's its own space, and it's even more customizable than the worker-owned co-ops.
23:15
The worker-owned co-op piece, uh, there's elements that are codified in tax code, um, that, so it's not totally customizable, but it's more customizable.

14 MINS LATER

37:48
... their balance sheet becomes very strong pretty quickly.

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