Imo, any large company, even if started hard by linus and luke (and co), was always created by all the employees.

The ownership of any large company should imo always be gradually moved over to the people work there.

Workee coops are not a silver bullet and will always be corruptible in any way any other democracy can, but at least it has the possibility to be proper over strict founder / investor ownership where you are at their mercy.