MISSION
Learn How Teamwork Drives Our Success!
Behind the Game, How We Run Our Business Like a Team:
Just like in sports, teamwork is everything. At Skill Diff, we believe in shared success — everyone contributes, and everyone wins. Every partner makes key plays and brings their unique skills to the table. There are no sideline spectators here — everyone is fully engaged, and when we win, we all share in the victory.
Yes, we run our business like a team, and ownership over assets is shared in accordance with labor expended. Want to know how we operate off the field? Check out how we’re building a business where victory isn’t just for a few — but for the entire team instead.
We Do Things Differently Around Here
You know how most businesses work: the people at the top get rich, while the rest do all the work and barely see any rewards. We don’t think that’s fair — and we’re doing something about it.
At Skill Diff, we’re rewriting the rules. Instead of having employees who clock in to make someone else wealthy, and then treating them like disposable tools, we work together as partners. Here, when you contribute to the development of a product for the marketplace, you own a piece of the asset you help to produce, and by extension, a piece of the revenue that product will generate throughout its lifetime!
No more working for someone else’s bottom line — here, we work for each other.
What’s Wrong With the Old Way?
In the traditional business model, the people who put in the hard work often get the least out of it. You’ve probably felt this before: you put in the hours, push yourself, and what do you get? A paycheck, sure, but the big rewards always go to someone else.
That’s not how we operate. At Skill Diff, we believe that if you help build something, you should benefit from it too, not just get a taste. This is why all partners get an ownership percentage of the assets they help build, equal to their labor expenditure on the asset, FOR LIFE.
That’s recurring revenue on all shipped projects FOREVER. Not just a paycheck that disappears after you spend it.
We really are all in this together, and it’s about time we started acting like it.
No More Lords
Long ago, the people of the world got tired of being ruled over by kings and queens, and Enlightenment thought presided over the most comprehensive global power restructuring in history. However, the victory of democracy was not complete. As real power migrated from the political sphere to the economic sphere, we have increasingly begun to be ruled by economic tyrants, the corporations they control, and the governments they routinely purchase or powerfully influence. They shape the policies they want, powerfully block the ones they don’t, and the rest of us just have to live with it — simply because we don’t have an army of lobbyists like they do. Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Professor Benjamin Page provide the evidence in their study, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens”.
The only way out is to work together.
At Skill Diff, we present an example of worker empowerment, based on the idea that all persons are created equal. Here, there are no lords or ladies, and I as the founder am simply a leader, not qualitatively different from the rest of the team. We reject claims of nobility — economic or otherwise, as well as top-down hierarchical systems which declare that some are “born to rule” and others are “born to obey.”
Here, we reject the principles of economic monarchy and fight for an economy that is as democratic as we want our political systems to be. Fight for an economy that works for all of us, not just for the top 1%. This transformation is possible. Today, in many parts of the world we have presidents and not kings, and we have very nearly achieved universal enfranchisement in many countries, but the job is not complete: We need a democratic economy to go along with it, or else our political freedoms will be continually undermined by these economic powers.
Partnership, Never Employment
Demand fair equity and incredible long-term profits, not jobs.
Here’s the deal: we don’t have employees here, and we never will. We have partners. This means no bosses, no employers, nobody holding a paycheck over your head to get you to submit. Instead, workers share in the long-term rewards proportionally to how much work was put in by them, that way we’re all invested in making it work. By doing good, we all do well.
Instead of workers and owners, we’re all workers, and we’re all owners.
There are also many additional benefits to leading a business this way: When you’re a partner, you care about results, not just the paycheck. You put your heart and soul into the work, because you know it’s yours too — you’re not just being used and then thrown away, and that creates better products, better experiences, and a better business.
Why It Matters
Look, we know the old system isn’t working for most people. It’s leaving too many people feeling undervalued and overworked. But it doesn’t have to be that way. At Skill Diff, we’re proving there’s a better way — one where everyone who contributes shares in the success. Here are some of our core values:
➔ Shared Success: When we win, we all win. Everyone gets a piece of the pie.
➔ Real Value: We care deeply about the quality of what we produce because it’s about DELIVERING REAL VALUE that MATTERS, if we can do that, then we don’t have to worry about profits, because they’ll naturally follow.
➔ Fairness and Equity: Every partner matters, and so do their contributions.
Let’s Change the Game
We’re not just a business — we’re a community. We believe in fairness, in shared success, and in building something that works for all of us, not just some of us. If you’re tired of being treated like you don’t matter when you clearly do, then you’re in the right place.
We’re here to do things differently and build something that we can all be proud of, together.
— Freeman.
“Let's have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it”
— Abraham Lincoln
Cooperative Industrialism:
Reimagining Wealth and Ownership
You’ve probably heard that capitalism is the source of global wealth. But what if that’s not the whole story? What if it’s not capitalism that gives us all the products, services, and infrastructure we rely on every day — but industrialism? The real engine behind modern wealth is mass production, technology, and innovation. The problem isn’t production — it’s how we produce and who controls that production.
Within the standard modern business, a few people at the top make all the decisions. The owners and the board of directors control the business, and they’re the ones who reap the rewards. The workers? They just follow orders, get their unions smashed, and don’t get to share in the long-term successes of the business or in the revenue. Instead, they just get wages, and those wages are always at risk of being cut, getting eaten away by inflation, and being driven to subsistence through international labor competition. Workers are told they’re indispensable, but are treated as though they are infinitely replaceable. They give their lives to their jobs only to face insecurity and neglect. Then, when they are no longer needed, their employers say “bye bye,” and that’s the end of that. “Good luck finding a new job,” they say, if they say anything at all.
Cooperative Industrialism changes all of this by flipping the script. Here’s how it works:
1. Shared Wealth Creation: We can still have the same level of wealth, technology, and infrastructure we enjoy today — but without the owner/worker divide. The problem isn’t the scale of what we produce, it’s who gets to make the decisions and who benefits from it. In a cooperative system, everyone who contributes to creating value shares in both the ownership and the decision-making. Competition drives innovation, and worker-owned businesses would still compete with each other for market share, thus retaining innovation.
2. We All Own the Enterprise: Instead of a few people getting rich while the rest work to make it happen, everyone involved owns a piece of the business. Decisions aren’t made in boardrooms by a select few — they’re made collectively. It’s about democratizing ownership, so that every person’s voice matters, not just the voices of those who have vast quantities of capital.
3. Sustainable Growth: Cooperative Industrialism isn’t just about creating wealth — it’s about doing it responsibly. By putting ownership into the hands of all, we ensure that mass production will be green and sustainable. Why? Because when the decisions are placed in the hands of the people who live in the community, they are not going to want to destroy the very communities they live in. We’re not here for short-term profit at the expense of the planet. We’re here to build something that lasts, benefits everyone, and respects the environment.
Imagine a world where we can still have everything we need and more, but the wealth and decisions are spread across all of us. That’s the power of Cooperative Industrialism. It’s not about tearing anything down — it’s about building something better by making sure everyone has a stake in the future. It’s about replacing existing systems with better ones, together.
WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY
We envision a workplace where everyone has a voice, where decisions are made collectively, and where every partner profoundly benefits from the fruits of their labor beyond just a token paycheck. At Skill Diff, we’re not here to serve the interests of a few owners at the top. Here, workers aren’t just used — they have real power, and they’re owners too. Together, we ensure that profits from the business are shared fairly, as we build a community that thrives on mutual respect and the principles of cooperative industrialism.
