# A private ARPA requires new legal organization structures
[[Legal structures are intimately tied to the question of how money works in an organization]] so this note is the dual to [[How does money work in PARPA?]].
### Could PARPA be a normal for-profit company?
[[A normal for-profit structure would hamstring an ARPA-riff]]
### Should PARPA be a non-profit organization?
At the same time, [[The traditional non-profit structure is a bad idea for an organization that requires a significant chunk of capital and produces uncertain results on a long timescale]]
If traditional for-profit and non-profit structures would both stand in the way of successfully executing on an ARPA-riff, does that make the idea dead on arrival? Possibly! But there might be a third way. If you can create a structure that other people are willing to agree to and doesn’t violate any laws, [[There are no first principles for legal structures]] that will stop you.
### A middle road?
* [[PARPA could walk the line between profit and non profit]]
* [[Employee-ownership could enable PARPA to align long-term incentives]]
* [[PARPA needs a constitution with checks and balances]]
### Questions
* [[What’s the difference between Prime Coalition and an L3C?]]
* [[How does Prime Coalition’s fund work? Are the investments all earmarked? To they get to keep returns?]]
* Does being a non-profit limit the ways you can get money?
* Employee owned thing?
### Related
* [[A new structure for scalable research]]
Some organizations with interesting structures
* [[Research Bridge Partners]]
* [[Prime Coalition]]
* [[OpenAI LP - Post]]
* [[Media Lab]]
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