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Business leader, speaker, and author John Abrams is dedicated to transforming business into a force for good. He co-founded South Mountain Company and served as its President for over four decades. In the late 1980s, he converted the company into a worker co-op and, in 2022, transitioned it to the next generation of leadership. Later that year, he founded Abrams+Angell with his late-in-life partner, Kim Angell, to help small businesses increase effectiveness and achieve social, environmental, and financial goals. He concentrates on guiding worker cooperative conversions. In June 2025, Abrams will release From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership, which introduces the concept of CommonWealth Comp ...more

Can a Dirtbag Billionaire Fix Capitalism?

August 7, 2026 – John Abrams

Patagonia

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is 87 years old. Apparently, he spends much of his time fly fishing on the Snake River near his Wyoming ranch, still the first on the river in the morning and the last to leave at dusk. Meanwhile, Patagonia—the outdoor clothing and gear company he has led for more than a half century—continues to be at the top of the heap

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“Employee ownership could reward owners and workers at once, dramatically affect wealth inequality, and sustain valuable businesses for generations to come.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“Our economic system directs wealth to owners and shareholders while workers are generally limited to a wage. We could change that.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“Democracy in the workplace can nourish collaboration and cooperation in all walks of life.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“Employee ownership could reward owners and workers at once, dramatically affect wealth inequality, and sustain valuable businesses for generations to come.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“Business can be at the heart of the great civilizational shift that we need today.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“Our economic system directs wealth to owners and shareholders while workers are generally limited to a wage. We could change that.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“The benefits of the democratic workplace may aid and influence the essential repair of our battered and fractured civic landscape—it could change, in effect, the symmetry of our culture.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

“Democracy in the workplace can nourish collaboration and cooperation in all walks of life.”
John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

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