Stocksy.com is part of a new wave of start-ups that are borrowing the tools of Silicon Valley to create a more genuine “sharing” economy that rewards the individuals generating the value, The New York Times reports. The cooperative is owned and governed by the photographers who contribute their work. Every Stocksy photographer owns a share of the company, with voting rights, and most of the money from sales of their work goes into their pockets. Stocksy, founded in 2013, now counts 900 photographer-members selected from more than 10,000 applications. It has 20 full-time employees at its headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, and another five contractors who work remotely.