The "i"s stand for being "(i)nvestor", "(i)nventor" and "(i)ntrapreneur" (iii) at the same time, and may be useful for inventive people.
Suppose you want to think of inventions, and find companies to realize them. Usually, there's lots of friction involved -- you got to patent them to make sure the recipient won't steal them, the company is then not guaranteed to take them, because they may not want to pay patent fees, and so on. What if there was a smoother way?
So, imagine building relationships with organizations that pursue directions in line with your innovations, become an employee to get inside information, then invest into their stocks if you see prospect, and then share about those inventions to boost the stock prices, this way helping the organizations, and even get bonuses for breakthrough contributions, as a friend and collaborator, rather than an outsider. Moreover, imagine having the ability to get social benefits from multiple companies globally that you are helping that way. Wouldn't it be kinda cool? I think it would -- it's like having multiple friend homes. Yet, you, as a free individual, would probably want a freedom from being involved in day-to-day operations, and the ability to focus on areas of interest at a time.
So, here's how the "triple-i" employment position would work:
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A triple-i employment would be governed by special employment agreements, balancing the rights and responsibilities needed to carry out inventive consulting function without being a part of a consulting firm.
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In practice, it would work like friendships with the management of the companies, and forming it would be on the basis of at least:
- (a) a need of the inventor to find internal resources to realize ideas beneficial to the company and the world,
- (b) a need for the company to innovate products and compete in the global market,
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However, it may also include:
- (c) a need of the inventor to be social, make friends, and not to be merely transactional (as in the case of selling patents),
- (d) a need for the inventor to avoid high-risk entrepreneurship, or costly mergers-and-acquisitions to create great value (through stock options),
- (e) a need to get the rewards earlier and actively through bonuses, rather than later passively through stock options.
- (f) an extra security through having social insurances of multiple types
A triple "i" employee would be formalized as an "friend-level-employee" as a consultant with zero time commitment, and zero responsibilities for day-to-day operations, but with the rights and responsibilities associated with access to certain business information, and ability to communicate and participate in meetings related to consulting, as well as the ability to register ideas as work results within product ideas board and sometimes development iceboxes. It may also be connected with the role of product tests reviewer, that can come up with a entirely new products as ideas. They may also be collaborators of patenting processes funded by the companies that happen before their product ideas actually are taken from product boards to implementation.
Such employment would be highly affected by getting to know the people of the company -- it's got to be a psychological match between a company and the employee.
To realize this idea, a legally usable modified employment agreement and an NDA template needs to be created for use within a few major jurisdictions.
