2022 is also the first year one of #ZTN's investments tipped over. It's a bummer that I won't see the money back; but I'm grateful I had the opportunity to support a local retail worker coop through COVID, epsecially one owned primarily by queer people of color.

I had made the investment under the CA Cooperative Code, which allows any CA entity (human or corporation) to invest $1k into any CA-COOP.

Looks like #ZTN made $300 in 2022 (ZTN is the original S-Corp I had founded when I first started #Consulting, it's what I used to incubate and launch both #Cohere and #ZincCoop; as well as to make investments in #DriversCoop, #EBPREC, and other #BIPOC-owned businesses.

It serves as the entity-of-record for 2 of my longest-term software delivery clients (9? and 5 years, respectively!) and #MomentPark.

Most of its expenses are pass-through payments to #Cohere and #ZincCoop.

If there were a set of artists who wanted to give this a shot, I'd be happy to help them out by lending expertise in software engineering, digital infrastructure, and cooperative finance and operations.

I'd even happily incubate it in #ZTN, my (currently moth-balled) cooperative incubator in 2023.