Some are founded toward something. This page incorporates the second kind.
The default organization moves toward the default future: whatever emerges from neutral forces and quarterly pressure. A venture of the other kind starts by choosing the future it exists to reach, then lets that choice do real structural work. It shapes who joins, what gets measured, what gets refused. Not a mission statement framed in the lobby. An anchor.
The registry below accepts new filings.
Optimistic Ventures Registry · Filing 001
There is hereby founded a venture, organized toward a future in which
The venture shall measure itself by its distance to the future named above, and by nothing else. No chart shall substitute.
Decisions inconsistent with the future named above are void, however profitable, however fashionable, however easy to justify.
Perpetual. Ventures of this kind cannot be dissolved, only abandoned, and abandonment is not recognized by this registry.
signed: the founder. name withheld, on purpose.
Every organization is incorporated toward something. Most just never wrote it down.