DEFINITION USED IN THIS COLLECTION

Stewardship.

Durable responsibility and protected purpose across ownership, leadership or generational transitions.

Ownership, control and benefits

What it includes

Asset locks, protective vetoes, reciprocal constraints and long-term custodianship.

Where the boundary lies

Ordinary day-to-day decision rights or current goodwill alone do not establish durable stewardship.

How speakers put it.

EXPLICIT RELATED FORMULATION · Steward ownership

Likely speaker

Lilly PokrakaProject Manager · Purpose Foundation

So our work focuses on Stuart ownership, which effectively separates money and power within the ownership structure of a company.

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Lilly describes steward ownership as separating money and power in a company’s ownership structure. This is a narrower institutional formulation than the collection’s broader stewardship code.

Watch 4:35–4:44 →

Mission Without Exit: Designing Ownership That Survives Success

Evidence in practice.

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Analyst applies. Lilly explains a foundation-held veto as a legal workaround to protect the separated structure.

analyst applies · DAY 2 · 10:04

Lilly explains a foundation-held veto as a legal workaround to protect the separated structure.

Veto scope, enforcement and foundation accountability not independently assessed.

Likely speaker

John GarryGeneral Partner · Garry ElevatorLinkedIn ↗

Lilly PokrakaProject Manager · Purpose Foundation

Unidentified speaker

Mission Without Exit: Designing Ownership That Survives SuccessWatch passage →

Qualifies the boundary. Ordinary day-to-day decision rights or current goodwill alone do not establish durable stewardship.

qualifies · DAY 2 · 19:11

The initial steward-owned structure left founders with most voting power; democratisation came later.

Steward ownership is not synonymous with equal worker voting.

Likely speaker

Juho MakkonenCo-Founder · SharetribeLinkedIn ↗

Mission Without Exit: Designing Ownership That Survives SuccessWatch passage →

Differences and limits.

No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.

Ordinary day-to-day decision rights or current goodwill alone do not establish durable stewardship.

Related concepts.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

decision rights →

Protected purpose can constrain control, but does not necessarily make control democratic.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

reinvestment →

Retaining surplus may help preserve purpose; it is not sufficient evidence of protected purpose.

Codes that occur in the same passages

Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.

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