[RandomCitizen12]

> How would a business like this get started? Usually the owner is the one who invests a lot of their own time and/or money into the business to get it off the ground in the first place. Would we be asking workers to pony up in those early years when failure is likely?

In Canada, there are 'Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations' with union overseers to do this and special tax deductions for investing money through these.

They are, of course, a giant failure that neither provides easier access to capital for entrepreneurs nor generates any notable return for investors.

[harhargange]

Moreover, splitting the decision making is so conflict prone and unoptimised for competition. I had a look at some statistics that showed most successful startups take off when they have a single founder

[esarbe]

This is about ownership, not decision making. How you set up the decision making process is entirely up to the company.

The same argument could be made for any other kind of shared ownership company.