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Body of Work

The thinking behind the work.

A foundational white paper, concept work on the care economy, a 2025 TEDx talk, articles, ongoing writing, and a forthcoming book — developed over years of practice across industry, entrepreneurship, and education.

Foundational Paper · 2025

Redefining the American Dream

Ownership, Democracy, and Shared Prosperity.

The foundational white paper of the Shared Prosperity Model — the argument that prosperity is now determined by asset ownership, not wages, and that democracy requires predistribution rather than redistribution to remain viable.

Article · 2024

A Nation of Entrepreneurs

Our Most Undervalued Asset.

On the 33 million entrepreneurs who carry the American Dream — and the structural reasons most never make the leap from self-employment to wealth-building enterprise. The case for a bell-curve economy over winner-takes-all.

TEDx · 2025

Manifesting an Economic Engine for Shared Prosperity

A call for bold action: building sovereign wealth for the people, unlocking last-mile capital, and ensuring that the future of our economy — and education system — is not just inclusive, but owned by the communities it serves. Among the top ten most-viewed TEDx talks globally in May 2025, with over 100,000 views.

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Alfredo Mathew III — TEDx introduction
Ongoing Writing

Shared Prosperity

Substack — ongoing essays on ownership, entrepreneurship, education, and the work of building broad-based prosperity from where we already stand.

Forthcoming

Never Build Alone

A forthcoming book on founder ownership and the relational architecture of enterprise — the seed of which traces back to surviving a brain hemorrhage in April 2022 at age 48, and the realization that we were never meant to build alone.