One half of a two-person Denver company that creates skoolies, or buses converted into mobile homes, is accusing the other of stealing company funds and competing against it.

Chrome Yellow was founded in 2018 by Ben Jackson and Charlie Kern at a fabrication shop along Federal Boulevard after real estate prices drove Kern to build his own skoolie.

“We got the idea to start this business about three months after I built my first bus,” Kern recalled in a 2019 video . “We were already getting offers and propositions from other people.

“Without him, we wouldn’t be doing this,” he said of Jackson at the time. “He is the ‘we.’”

A full Chrome Yellow conversion cost between $55,000 and $95,000 in 2019, the company told The Denver Post that year. Its customers range from 20-ish entrepreneurs to

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