Maximum Fun – Los Angeles, CA – Becoming Employee Owned

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Location: Los Angeles, California
Sector: Media
Founded: 2004
Employee owned since: 2023
Number of employees at the time of transition: 24
Support from: Project Equity

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Project Equity – Jesse Thorn’s Signature Signoff: Maximum Fun’s transition to employee ownership (2025) video
Project Equity – Pioneering podcast network Maximum Fun powers employee ownership
Vulture – The People’s Maximum Fun (2023)
Los Angeles Times – His L.A.-based podcast company faced a crossroads. Now Jesse Thorn’s employees are owners (2023)
TechCrunch – Podcast network Maximum Fun is becoming a worker-owned co-op (2023)
Podpod – Podcast company Maximum Fun to become worker cooperative (2023)
Recode – Podcast pioneer Jesse Thorn built his own business. Now his employees own it (2023)

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