A Freedom Cities Open Letter: We, the undersigned founders, investors, and builders, write to express our strong support for Freedom Cities.

Doubt screams the loudest right before a miracle

The cultivation of will is not a skill, but a choice. Skills entail natural bounds. Man can only punch so fast, build so much, or think so sharply, as their emanation stems from a physical core. The will of man is a non-physical, boundless force, limited only by the spirit of he

LA and Hollywood are dying under bureaucracy and centralization. The next creative capital needs to be decentralized, independent, and designed for artists to thrive. Arcadia is this capital.

A.I films deserve a place in the arts, but not at the expense of human films

Move fast and break things? Move slow and make art 🎨

Use art to tell a secret

Because the system is inherently crooked

New cities are the biggest market of the future. A.I will solve energy, resources, and labor. Cities are our species’ nexus of these three things, plus culture. A.I cannot solve for culture—only humans can create and sustain culture.

The world needs a new creative capital

Why aren't there more holdcos instead of VCs? Take a 100+ year outlook and deploy concentrated investments that reinvests all returns? Very difficult to get anything substantial done on a 10-yr horizon. Need to be thinking across generations... Make belief great again.

Dubai was built in 50 years. With current and impending technology, a strong economic core, and a truly invested community of people, new cities can rise from zero to global leader within 1-2 decades.

Arcadia will create decentralized networks of cozy little farming villages

Andries understands private governance better than anyone I know, and his work is foundational for building in the direction the world is moving toward

The world isn’t prepared for how much A.I is gonna change the way economies and societies operate

The Arcadia Residency will be Y Combinator for the arts

This is what I believe

Taylor had to spend 6 years and millions just to buy back her own art—from private equity. With decentralized technology, new economic models, and a different value system, we can build a world where that never happens again. There is a better way—Arcadia is coming.