# 46. Building Doors (w/ Yancey Strickler)

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Podcast: [Disintegrator](https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019)
Published: 2026-06-29T15:27:52+00:00
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## Resource

We're joined by Yancey Strickler: writer, cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and the person behind a string of projects that try to give creative life a workable economic form: Bentoism, The Creative Independent, Metalabel, the Dark Forest Collective, and now Artist Corporations and the Dark Forest Operating System. The episode is timely. We recorded in late May, days before Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Artist Company Act into law on June 2, 2026 - the country's first "A Corp," a company type where the artist keeps majority control, intellectual property reverts to its maker if the company dissolves, and an artistic mission sits above profit. More than 4,000 creators have already signed up, and several states are drafting their own versions. Where this show usually works by critique, Strickler builds working alternatives and writes them into law. Our running question throughout: when criticizing the system is the admired move, is building something real the more radical act, or does anything built inside the system end up serving it? Yancey Strickler's projects Yancey Strickler — ystrickler.com Bentoism — bentoism.org The Creative Independent — thecreativeindependent.com Metalabel — metalabel.com New Creative Era (Strickler's podcast with Joshua Citarella) — metalabel.com Artist Corporations & the law Artist Corporations — artistcorporations.com The Colorado Artist Company Act (SB 26-133), annotated full text — artistcorporations.com/law/annotated Strickler's TED talk, "Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation" (2025) — ted.com News coverage of the signing: The Colorado Sun · The Art Newspaper · ARTnews Frieze, "Can A-Corps Save the Struggling Artist?" (skeptical take, also previews DFOS) — frieze.com The private internet, AI & IP…

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