The Freelance Journalism Podcast
Aug 25, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
Soleil Ho has always had a lot of irons in the fire. For a decade, they worked as a chef while freelancing as a writer. In 2019, they joined the San Francisco Chronicle, where they served as the…
Soleil HoGuest
Shernay WilliamsHost
Catherine Reynolds LewisHost
And everybody has to be willing to, like you said, do the unsexy work, if you will.
So every I would say like the majority of cooperatives ask members like worker owners to pay in a little bit.
just one, demonstrate commitment, and two, just give people a sense of ownership, right? It's like you're buying a share, but the price of the share never changes.
The fee was $3,000 because it felt like that was a nice chunk, but it wasn't like...
And we did a crowdfunding campaign at the beginning in the summer of 2025 and basically framed it as like, you're pre-buying subscriptions to this thing that you've never seen.
yeah yeah um so that has sustained us to kind of get to a place where we can like rely more and more on like member like recurring revenue from members um but it was a really great head start that we got
And everybody has to be willing to, like you said, do the unsexy work, if you will.
So every I would say like the majority of cooperatives ask members like worker owners to pay in a little bit.
just one, demonstrate commitment, and two, just give people a sense of ownership, right? It's like you're buying a share, but the price of the share never changes.
The fee was $3,000 because it felt like that was a nice chunk, but it wasn't like...
And we did a crowdfunding campaign at the beginning in the summer of 2025 and basically framed it as like, you're pre-buying subscriptions to this thing that you've never seen.
yeah yeah um so that has sustained us to kind of get to a place where we can like rely more and more on like member like recurring revenue from members um but it was a really great head start that we got
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