Who is business really for?

So you say that your business has a mission, one that goes beyond shareholder value. But how do you make sure that happens when push comes to shove? Can you make your mission unbreakable: one that’s able to survive investment, growth, an exit or life beyond the founders? In this episode, co-founder Emma Shaw and I talk about why ownership structure isn’t a legal detail, but a design decision about who your business is really for. We share how Library of Things went from a nonprofit to steward-owned and mission-locked, what it meant for raising funds, and what we’d tell any founder who wants to build something that stays true to itself, whatever the weather. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.