Two Years Wiser: The Nilenso Experiment
summary
nilenso claims a workers cooperative can run real client work and survive two years of experiments; concrete artifacts include a one‑month Rails product wiken (open source, failed as a sellable product), a drawn‑out LLP constitution rewrite (two years of fixes), a staged hiring pipeline (three months contractor then three months employee then partner), a shift from Ruby to Clojure services, and a six‑month cash‑negative stretch that forced expense cuts; governance settles on an executive for hard decisions and documented processes rather than constant referendums.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 3:42ingredients
- 12:14today's incomplete allegories
- 15:52definition
- 19:11a corporate co-op is not
- 19:50india does not have corporate co-operatives
- 20:42lies to avoid
- 30:14what is an "executive"?
- 31:04work is mostly about working
- 47:52autonomy = deep end
- 52:20mistakes!
- 55:58resources
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