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Salt Lake City, UT

Crowdfunding a book and movement to promote broad economic ownership and systemic reform.

• Growing audience: Over 150,000 monthly views and 20,000 newsletter subscribers.
• Widely read: Followers include leaders at OpenAI, Stripe, Y Combinator, and major media.
• Unique offering: Investors gain ownership in a live, crowdfunded book project.
• Profit sharing: 40% of book sales distributed annually to investors.
• Engaged community: Multiple tiers for investor participation including advisory roles.

The Elysian is a publishing project dedicated to exploring and promoting the concept of broad-based ownership in the economy, with a focus on creating more owners beyond the traditional wealthy elite. The project centers around a book that investigates how wealth and power have increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few and proposes strategies to democratize ownership through worker equity, stakeholder ownership, participatory democracy, and systemic policy reforms. The book will be written publicly over the next few years, with investors participating in the research, pre-sales, and profit sharing from its distribution, including potential expansions into other media formats.

The fundraising supports marketing, printing, distribution, and outreach efforts to pre-sell and sell the book to a broad audience of founders, executives, and policymakers interested in reimagining capitalism to benefit a wider population. The project is led by journalist Elle Griffin, whose work is widely read among influential figures in the tech and business sectors. Investors will receive a share of the book’s profits and can engage directly with the project through various tiers of participation, including advisory calls and content collaboration. The initiative aims to build a coalition of supporters and advance ideas for systemic change that foster shared economic ownership and democratic power structures.

Company Info

The Elysian is a media and publishing initiative advocating for equitable ownership of capital and systemic economic change through research and community engagement.

The Elysian is a media and publishing platform focused on exploring and advocating for broad-based ownership of capital to address wealth and power imbalances in society. The project centers around a forthcoming book that aims to inspire systemic change by promoting employee equity, stakeholder ownership, participatory democracy, and improved funding models to create a more equitable economy.

The platform engages its audience with ongoing research, crowdsourced content, and profit-sharing opportunities for investors. It emphasizes creating a vision for capitalism where wealth is distributed among more people, not concentrated in the hands of a few, and seeks to democratize economic power through innovative ownership and governance models. The project also builds coalitions and community support to drive these ideas into mainstream business and policy.