Why Employee Equity Matters

European Straits #107

Dear all,

I just flew back from the Bay Area, where I spent two days participating in the Social Science Foo Camp organized by O’Reilly, Sage, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Facebook.

I already wrote about Foo Camp in this . However, this one was slightly different in two respects. First, the venue was not O’Reilly’s campus in Sebastopol, but Facebook’s MPK 21 building in Menlo Park—which created a bit of controversy, considering the context. And the crowd was different: fewer technologists, almost no venture capitalists, but a large group of social scientists from all disciplines—including several friends and mentors, well-known authors, and at least one Nobel Prize recipient! Needless to say I seized the opportunity to test some ideas I’ve been working on such as the future of social democracy and Europe’s once again becoming a developing economy. Stay tuned 😉!

Why employee equity matters

Being in the Bay Area was also the opportunity to have a few meetings with people working in …