{"id":370,"date":"2008-02-25T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2008-02-28T10:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:10:32","slug":"chaordic-giant-visa-to-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/chaordic-giant-visa-to-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaordic giant VISA to IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa, the trillion dollar credit card administration business, is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7263156.stm\">to be listed on a stock market<\/a>.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if the innovative company structure designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/rds.yahoo.com\/_ylt=A0geu49iiMZHAR8A2LZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE4bGJidmQzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0NTMDFfODgEbANXUzE-\/SIG=11p0butb6\/EXP=1204279778\/**http%3a\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dee_Hock\">Dee Hock<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordic.org\/\">Chaordic Commons<\/a>) will be compromised by the listing.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t immediately.\u00a0 But the very nature of shareholdings is so fundamentally different from the member owned structure designed by Hock that over time it is possible that an oligarchy or monopoly of shareholders may develop which might change the impartial dynamic of today&#8217;s corporate structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa, the trillion dollar credit card administration business, is to be listed on a stock market.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if the innovative company structure designed by Dee Hock (Chaordic Commons) will be compromised by the listing.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t immediately.\u00a0 But the very nature of shareholdings is so fundamentally different from the member &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/chaordic-giant-visa-to-ipo\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaordic giant VISA to IPO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holonics","category-markets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}