A leaderless code-based organisation launched in late April this year has become the largest crowd-funding story in history.

The company called DAO – which stands for distributed autonomous organisation – was created using a computer code, and uses digital currency to do peer-to-peer contracts automatically without the need to anyone else to get involved.

DAO has no chief executive, no employees, no offices and even no corporate mission, yet as has already raised a huge US$149.06 million (A$206.2 million equivalent) and shows no sign of stopping.

The latest statistics on company size, employment and turnover show a rising number of companies with no employees, mirroring the rise in self employment.

Earlier this year NPI released a short report looking at how the sizes of firms in the UK had changed between 2000 and 2014. The number of firms with zero employees had grown a lot, while the number of large and medium sized firms had only grown a little.

ONS and BIS released new statistics for 2015 last week. What they showed was, broadly, a continuation of those trends. The number of firms with zero employees grew again, and by more than other sized firms.

So tell me, what's that got to do with the working man

libertyed wrote: So tell me, what's that got to do with the working man

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