Would they be a for-profit company or a nonprofit foundation? By the end of the Toronto trip, that question was still up in the air for some, even though Charles, Joe, and Anthony thought the matter had been settled. To them, Ethereum would be a for-profit software company, which would build applications to run on top of the open source protocol. The Gmbh company that Mihai had incorporated in Zug would be dissolved to give way to a new corporation owned by the eight cofounders. There would still be a foundation to manage the funds raised and give support to the open source protocol.