{"id":61094,"date":"2021-12-24T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61094"},"modified":"2021-12-24T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:47:02","slug":"putting-post-growth-theory-into-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61094","title":{"rendered":"Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The Post Growth Entrepreneurship Incubator helps founders break free from traditional business models and implement sustainable non-extractive practices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Annie Spratt via\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Melanie Rieback is the founder of the Post Growth Entrepreneurship
\n(PGE) Incubator,\u00a0Nonprofit Ventures<\/a>, as well as her own successful post
\ngrowth business,\u00a0Radically Open Security<\/a>\u00a0(ROS). We sat down with Melanie to find out more about the innovative program helping founders break free from traditional business models and implement sustainable non-extractive practices.<\/p>\n

How do you define Post Growth Entrepreneurship?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would say it\u2019s entrepreneurship and startup incubation that is focused on building non-extractive and not-for-profit businesses. So we\u2019re trying to use entity forms like foundations and Steward Ownership. We promote cross-subsidizing charity with our businesses, and we\u2019re trying to offer an alternative for startup founders who want to bring their activist, artistic, spiritual business ideas to life without selling out in the commercial startup ecosystem. Too much of the startup ecosystem uses the Silicon Valley model of \u2018capital, scale, exit.\u2019 Instead we\u2019re promoting: bootstrapping, flat growth, and non-extraction.<\/p>\n

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