Paddy Johnson

Yancey Strickler, who's probably best known as the co-founder of Kickstarter and now MetaLabel, has a new project.

It's called the A Corp, a new business designation for artists that's designed to give artists legal protection, the ability to share ownership with collaborators, and eventually access to group benefits like health insurance.

It's currently a bill before the Colorado Senate, and if it passes, it could be a model for the rest of the country.

This is genuinely exciting stuff.

So let's dive into it.

Yancey, welcome to the show.

Well, thanks so much for being here.

I think the first thing I want to do is just have you give our listeners a little bit of background on some of the things you've done, because I know that they are aware of a lot of the projects that you've done, but they might not know that you are behind them.

We use that a lot over in Network.

And for those of you who might not know, The Creative Independent is an online magazine and resource that provides emotional and practical guidance for creative people, something that I have contributed to in a lot of different writers over the years.

Yeah, now one of the things that I think really interested me is that as you do a lot of these projects, it seems like you do a lot of research.

And so one of the things that got me put MetaLabel on my radar was actually your survey that you released.

I think you've done two now.

And it's all about how artists are faring in this economy.

And tell people a little bit about that and how it's informing what you're doing.

So how does the ACORP really connect to all this?

Because we've talked a little bit about, we've talked a lot about feelings and we've talked a lot about struggles.

And I want to know how the ACORP has arisen from this.

Oh, it was really true.

When the B Corp came out, I was really interested in that because I was really involved in a project around affordability and real estate in New York.