(2021-07-04) Rao Free Agent Collective

Venkatesh Rao on potential for a network economy of clusters of free agents. Now that I’m actually consciously trying, I think what actually held me back is sheer lack of even the most basic infrastructure. Even just a few months in, the Yak Collective experiment is revealing just how enormous the potential is if we can get the infrastructure right.

Free agents radically unbundle the corporation. (Virtual Company)

I’ve been writing thinking, and even building products for free agent work for over a decade. Even have a patent for multilevel recursive auction collaborative marketplaces, which my team actually built and deployed internally at Xerox 10 years ago.