Our whole ethos is the people choose and we don't want to moderate as much as

possible. We don't want to moderate because that's kind of what we were built to

prevent is we don't want there to be a smog of the people who decide who gets

financing, right? We want the world at large to choose but that in some ways we

have to moderate to protect our users and they look to us to do that and to

kind of make sure that we don't have fraud and we you know all of these things

that we try to work against. I'm Mary Long and that's Becky Center CEO of the

crowdfunding platform Indiegogo which has helped fund over 925,000

entrepreneurial ideas. DeJervillard caught up with Center to discuss the sweet

spot that crowdfunding caters to how praising the failure can set entrepreneurs

up for success and why we might have crowdfunding to thank for eBikes and your

new favorite glamping spot. I was looking back at the history of Indiegogo. It's

been around since 2008 which is incredible. What do you think is part of the

keys of the longevity of both the the company and of kind of crowdfunding in

general? Oh great question to start us off with. Yeah it's so funny to hear of a

kind of startup that's been around as long as we have now but crowdfunding I

think has had a lot of longevity because of the emotional attachment to it. So

you know not only is it an interesting use of technology and an interesting way

to finance things into fundraise but it definitely brings people in because you

know I think that our users really connect with the spirit of creativity

innovation entrepreneurship and the types of campaigns that we have in our

site are always changing always different and the community at large loves to

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