Yancey Strickler

You had to have a product already made, which doesn't, like that word Kickstarter doesn't fit if you already have the product made.

Yeah, we just actually had Yancey Strickler, the co-founder of Kickstarter, and he kind of talked about the path a little bit.

So, OK, so you raise money on Kickstarter or you basically have the first, whatever, 188 bikes sold on Kickstarter, if I'm remembering correctly.

Yeah.

They don't want to be, you know, it's I think people are definitely moving away from those technologies and back to sort of, yeah, like just phone calls and texts and things like that.

Yeah, I think about Yancy Strickler's article he wrote a few years back on the Internet is a dark forest.

And I'm just thinking about this group right here, the Dark Forest Collective, and that's kind of what they've really been pushing is how can you get people to collaborate and still use the Internet as a collaborative tool, but something that isn't constantly under the lens of, you know, the metrics and algorithm.

How can you take the best of that? You know, we started the conversation about that early on.

It's not even just in, like, who's on stage.

We have Yancey Strickler.

He's the co-founder of Kickstarter who's now onto a new venture.

He's starting a brand-new type of corporation in his new organization.

It's a American thing, I guess.

But, um, strangely it's, uh, Yancey Strickler, who's one of the co-founders of Kickstarter, made this proposal of, uh, an A Corp, which is a almost an alternative to an LLC that artists could, um, I don't know, uh, legally be- become or something.

[laughs] And, um, as a way of in, in one ...

I think some of the virtues were really around copyright and royalties and stuff-

ArtistShare mixed a record label model with social sharing, allowing backers to get early access and special rewards while the artist kept control over creative decisions.

The next watershed moment was in April 2009 when Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler launched Kickstarter in Brooklyn.

They positioned it as a site that could help anyone bring creative projects to life by pooling small contributions from millions of backers who received tangible rewards—like the final product or exclusive merchandise—in exchange for their pledges.

Indiegogo came on board a year later and expanded the category spectrum.