Yancey Strickler

Like what came out was that they want to feel empowered and like they have agency and not that they are dependent.

And so all of these, it's even just going to therapy, it's great to be asked what you think, to be given a chance to speak.

And I think in all of these, we have heard feelings that certainly resonate with me of a lot of existential questioning, a lot of doubt, a lot of struggle, but still it's, if you do this, it's in you.

It's not really a choice.

Maybe it's a question of how much of your life it can take up and in what way, but if it's in you, it's in you.

And I think those of us that it's in us, we are a specific group of people and it's interesting to see where we are.

And undoubtedly, we're going to do this.

We're going to make and explore because we have to, not because we're trying to do something.

It's just there and it's always there.

Yeah.

To rewind the clock a little bit, back when I was at Kickstarter,

The three of us who started it, we were not business people.

We were not technical people.

We were all creative people that were LARPing and making a business.

And we vowed from the beginning to do this our way, to be the indie label, to follow our specific values.

But we always knew that those were platitudes and that they didn't have any sort of legal backing.

And around a few years in, the Public Benefit Corporation began to be developed and

And this happened by people trying to draft a new sort of corporate structure that made it okay to not just maximize profits because there was some doubt about whether or not that was even allowed in a corporate structure.

And so they created that idea and wrote it out how it would work.

And then they went state by state, which is where corporate law is set.