Austin Robey of Subvert, on How to Own Bandcamp with 30,000 People
When Bandcamp was sold to Epic Games and then, less than a year later, to the licensing company Songtradr, the independent music world learned what it actually owned: nothing. Bandcamp was the good ac...
11 Sep 58min
Bill Castellano, PhD on How Giving People Ownership Isn't the Same as Treating Them Like Owners
Bill Castellano has spent forty-five years in human resources — much of it on Wall Street, at Merrill Lynch and Manufacturers Hanover — and the last stretch of it at Rutgers, where he is a professor o...
3 Sep 1h 9min
Delilah Rothenberg on The Predistribution Initiative: You Can't Diversify Away From Inequality
Delilah Rothenberg went into finance to fight inequality and came out the other side with a sharper claim: the way capital is structured produces it. She spent nearly two decades across sell-side equi...
27 Aug 59min
Howard Brodsky of CCA Global on Capitalism with a Conscience: The $14 Billion Co-op Whose Founder Owns No Shares
Howard Brodsky's father was a Ukrainian refugee with a two-person flooring store in New Hampshire. Forty years later, the company Howard co-founded to save businesses like his father's, CCA Global Par...
20 Aug 47min
Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour on Building the Neighborhood Commons: What Happens When the Neighborhood Owns the Block
In the season five premiere of The Ownership Economy, we sit down with Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour, the Executive Director of the Kensington Corridor Trust (KCT). Operating in Philadelphia’s Kensington n...
12 Aug 58min
Episode 088 — Scaling Capital Markets for Shared Ownership: Alison Lingane's Blueprint for Capital Growth
This week we sit down with Allison Lingane, founder of Ownership Capital Lab, a nonprofit singularly focused on growing investment capital for employee ownership. Allison, with nearly 15 years in the ...
9 Sep 202550min
Episode 087 — Identity, Governance, and AI: A Conversation with Celo & Self Founder Rene Reinsberg
This week, Rene Reinsberg, co-founder and CEO of Celo and Self joins us. Rene's early journey was shaped by his small business owner parents, helping him establish an early entrepreneurial drive consi...
2 Sep 20251h 4min
