Dispatch from Denver

We’re writing from snowy Denver, where in a few hours we'll testify before the Colorado House Business Affairs & Labor Committee in favor of Artist Corporations. If today goes well, the bill moves to a floor vote. If that passes, with the procedural steps that follow, it lands on Governor Polis's desk in the coming weeks. The A-Corp form becomes law.

This is the second public hearing. The first was in the Colorado Senate, which passed the bill in a bipartisan 31-3 vote. Today is the next gate.

Two people especially made today possible. Susan Mac Cormac — co-founder of the Artist Corporations project, partner at Morrison Foerster, and one of the country's leading innovators in corporate legal form — has done as much as anyone to expand what a company can legally be. Stephanie Drumm, the Colorado-based associate working alongside her, has put months of pro bono drafting against state statute. Without them, we would not be here.

A full post-mortem will come once the dust settles — a playbook for anyone trying to do this in their own state, and the start of a new economic foundation for creative people.

Build your own internet#

A-Corps is legal architecture for creative work. DFOS is digital infrastructure for all of us. Both projects fulfill our core goal: to make cooperation as easy as competition, especially for creative people.

DFOS will open its doors on May 20. A new internet — private, shared, protected. Waitlist members get in first. Join here.

Peace and love,
Yancey