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The James Altucher Show

589 - How to Create REAL Intrinsic Value in a Crisis with Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Yancey Strickler is hte founder and former CEO of Kickstarter. And he's the author of a great new book, "This Could Be Our Future," which gives a new values-driven way of looking at entrepreneurship. Which is particularly important in this day and age of lock-down when consumerism is beginning to change in a major way. In this episode, he spells out exactly how someone can create long-term value for customers that sustains your business in crisis (and not in crisis.) I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:10.0

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.6

When the massive disruptions happen in life as we're seeing right now, it is the brands

0:20.8

and the category that have meaning that create non-financial values with the customers

0:26.3

that I think end up lasting.

0:28.8

And so the more that you can create that other source of value, I think that creates

0:34.2

long-term meaning that is critical and crises that's like a North Star during confusing

0:39.3

moments which every company is going to run through.

0:42.0

And ultimately, like, we'll let your work be meaningful and not just like we're trying

0:45.5

to Swiss, trying to make some more money at the widget factory today.

0:49.3

You know, when your job gets that abstracted, it's hard to get excited.

0:53.3

Yeah, and so how do you, this all assumes somebody has core values.

0:58.7

And now I'm not saying if you're without core values, I'm not saying you're immoral

1:02.9

or anything, you just maybe never sat down and thought about, hey, what is future me

1:07.4

that I'm meeting for?

1:08.4

I've been so much just trying to survive and now here in this quarantine, I was just

1:11.8

fired and I got to do this.

1:14.4

How do you, how does someone who hasn't built that muscle exercise it and build it?

1:29.7

So happy to welcome to the podcast, Yancy Strickler, who, if you don't know who he is,

1:36.9

he is the founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, which I'll let him describe more accurately,

1:43.6

but it's basically if you have a project like an artistic project, a creative project,

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