Feel Train
| Company type | Worker cooperative |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founder | Courtney Stanton, Darius Kazemi |
| Defunct | 2019 |
| Headquarters | Portland , United States |
| Products | Stay Woke Bot, Shortcut app, Relive 44 Twitter bot |
Feel Train was a technology cooperative established by Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi in Portland, Oregon. The cooperative discontinued its activities by the close of 2019.
Structure
Functioning as a worker-owned cooperative, Feel Train initially comprised Stanton and Kazemi as its founding worker-owners. The team was capped at eight members, all of whom shared identical salaries, equal ownership stakes, and equivalent decision-making power, including the right to remove fellow members.
Projects
Among Feel Train’s significant initiatives was the Stay Woke Bot, a Twitter bot developed in collaboration with activists DeRay Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe to aid digital activism efforts. The cooperative also collaborated with the radio show This American Life to produce Shortcut, an application that allowed users to distribute audio snippets across social media platforms, functioning similarly to how gifs circulate short video segments. Furthermore, Feel Train created Relive 44, a Twitter bot that began reposting every tweet from President Barack Obama’s first term starting May 2017, utilizing the Obama Social Media Archive.