Get to know Meredith Whittaker. The story of the Steward-owned platform Signal

The Steward-owned platform Signal is a true example of a business as a prototype of the world we want to live in . It has no financial shareholders, profit is a means rather than a goal, and the mission always comes first. Signal president Meredith Whittaker demonstrates that Big Tech can be fundamentally different and that Signal operates on a fundamentally different vision and revenue model than what is common in Silicon Valley.

The privacy-friendly alternative

Hundreds of millions of people use Signal, the privacy-friendly alternative to WhatsApp. As Steward-ownership is an ownership model that legally ensures companies remain purpose-driven and independent over the long term, these millions of users can rest easy and have faith in the mission-oriented path of Signal.

Read the interview in De Correspondent with Whittaker by Maurits Martijn about this company as a kind of litmus test for the economy and the future of tech. And about the dangers of surveillance and the risks of power concentration in this sector.

Whittaker states that if Signal were a traditional company, it would have a board demanding more profit, forcing Signal to lower its privacy standards.

So beyond its role in tech and privacy, Signal challenges the shareholder primacy paradigm.

Thx for that!

Meredith Whittaker