CBO is a holding company and project structure founded in 2015. CBO forms the framework for the entrepreneurial activities of the owner and managing director Andreas Gebhard. As a laboratory, we develop business and project ideas to create, develop and implement new things. We also support contemporary artists and have a small art collection. We are convinced that an emancipatory attitude is the prerequisite for sustainable, economic success. Our goal is to foster and implement structures in innovative ideas and projects that eventually have a positive impact on society. The name Creator Broker Owner (CBO) is based on a theory of the organizational psychologist Prof. Peter Kruse (1955-2015). He described the role of the creative who develops new ideas (creator), the networker who markets innovations (broker), and the experts who possess deep knowledge (owner), as three basic building blocks which work together to create something new. When developing projects, CBO is guided by this understanding of roles which combines seemingly disparate roles into one new approach to innovation. CBO projects are based on a clear social stance that is given priority over rapid growth or profit. We invest our energy in companies that serve social diversity, are ecologically sustainable, come from the creative industry, or deal with free or open source software. If all of the topics mentioned are a central components of CBO, the latter is a focus. The complex aspects of free and open source software for society, companies and state institutions can be found in almost all of our projects.