# 3.4 VEME the Company VEME started in 2015 as a traditional LLC with employees and is winding up its operations to transition fully into a DAO structure. However, a DAO does not mean there are no legal containers and no operating entities. It simply means those entities are more distributed, and that they are technically ‘owned’ in full or in part by the ‘DAO’ itself. \ Currently, there are few actual ‘orgs’ that are DAOs because of the lack of this infrastructure; rather most DAOs are investment vehicles, protocol management, or platform management structures.\ \ VEME is aiming to pioneer this transition from a ‘company’ into a DAO while honoring all initial investors, team members, and agreements. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://veme-master.gitbook.io/dao/3.-organizational-structure/3.4-veme-the-company.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.