A New Worker-Owned Cooperative Starts Competing with Uber and Lyft

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Encouraging news and a business structure that has the workers fully invested and rewarded as a CO-OP structure does, really is a good fit for this type of business and I hope it takes off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative - background on co-op's

https://www.drivers.coop/ this co-op's site and they have an app.

i hope to read this article soon/today.

the last company to try this was a scam -- not sure who exactly it was -- juno/gett/vw:

https://mashable.com/2017/04/28/juno-sale-gett-drivers-respo...

think i might have been or be a founding member of black star co-op brewery in austin, and i and others have tried to start a similar operation in San Jose, California:

Austin: https://blackstar.coop/

San Jose: https://umunhumbrewing.com/

co-ops can def help save the world, but damn i thought we'd be further along by now.

i have def thought this would be a great business for a co-op. i thought the existing/old nyc taxi companies were co-ops, but not sure.

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