Member ownership explicitly incentivizes this behavior. Everyone owns a piece of every project directly or indirectly: the Ethereum platform issues tokens that members can exchange for ether and then convert into any other currency. “Our goal is to achieve a nice balance between independence and interdependence,” Lubin said. “We view ourselves as a collective of closely collaborating entrepreneurlike agents. At some point, it may prove necessary to suggest that a certain thing really needs to get done and if nobody steps up, to hire someone initially for that role or incentivize internal
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