Philosophy

The Anti-SAFE

No lawyers. No minimums. No accreditation. No gatekeeping.
Just ideas that survive because people believe in them.

The Problem with SAFEs

Y Combinator's SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) was supposed to make startup investing simpler. Instead, it created a new barrier: you still need lawyers, you still need to be an accredited investor, and you still need to write checks with multiple zeros.

The garage startup myth sold us on the idea that anyone could build. But the funding model says only the wealthy can invest.

The Participation Spectrum

Not everyone wants to write code. Not everyone wants to write checks. fortune0 lets you participate at whatever level feels right.

How It Actually Works

fortune0 owns 230+ domains. Each one is an idea waiting to happen. Some are jokes. Some could be billion-dollar companies. Most are somewhere in between.

Domains expire every year. If nobody cares enough to keep them alive, they die. This is natural selection for ideas.

Believers can sponsor a domain's renewal. Builders can pitch what to build on it. If something gets built and makes money, everyone who believed early gets a piece.

"We don't need your money. We need your belief. The money is just proof you mean it."

Why This Matters

The internet was supposed to democratize creation. Instead, we got a system where the same people who could afford to invest in 1990 are the same people who can afford to invest today.

fortune0 is an experiment: what if participation started at $15 instead of $25,000? What if believing in an idea was as simple as keeping it alive for one more year?

Maybe most of these domains go nowhere. That's fine. The ones that matter will survive because people believed in them.