Yancey Strickler

And state by state, they got legislatures to pass it and say, okay, now in Maryland, you can be a PBC.

Now in Pennsylvania, and on until they got to Delaware.

And that's when Kickstarter became one.

But I closely followed that process when it was happening because we were thinking about it.

And it just struck me that

It was so boring and esoteric that no one cared.

And that's how they were able to do it.

Yeah, it took a long time to come here too.

But so I just watched how that happened and noticed that.

And then, so with MetaLabel, we help people cooperate and we have a marketplace platform where people can sell their work, physical, digital.

And we built in all these shared economics behind the scenes where whenever you sell something, release something, you get to set the split.

And for every dollar that's sold, where should it be directed?

And you can set on a percentage basis how much each person should receive.

And that money will just seamlessly flow to each of them without any effort.

And this is all new technology we built on top of Stripe and bank accounts.

And that made it so that people could sell things and have these really nice money flows.

One of the most successful of those projects was a writer's collective I'd started with 15 other people.

And we've now published three books together, Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, Anti-Mimetics by Nadia Asparova, and The Sexual History of the Internet by Mindy Hsu.

And each of these books have a split with it where money flows to people in interesting ways.

For the first Dark Forest Anthology book, 12 people get paid every time you buy a book.