How can creators work together and split revenue?

So when do people talk publicly about money, shares split and attribution of work? We just did! This is so sensitive and open...but can help your thinking.

Jul 5, 2021

4 of us are trying to form a creator collective and are figuring out what it means for our personal brands, our audiences, our work and contracts:

Do we function as a collective? But our audiences may value our individual personalities over the collective…
Do we split the revenue equally? Or do we attribute it somehow?
Do we set everything in stone or do we keep it fluid and expect each other to honor the goodwill?

We recorded our thinking process and are so open and vulnerable here, but we want to have it open so fellow creators save time and mental capacity on this complex topic.

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More of us talking about money:

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We made our startup pitch an art performance
The minimum viable community concept

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